Giving up linearity: Absorptive capacity and performance

Journal of Managerial Issues

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 164-189

  Brettel, Malte ^a   Greve, Greta I ^a   Flatten, Tessa C ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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