Competence exploration and exploitation in new product development: The moderating effects of environmental dynamism and competitiveness

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1444-1470

  Yang, Tsau Tang ^a   Li, Ci Rong ^b  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Entrepreneurship and Business Management Research Center   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

China; Competence exploitation; Competence exploration; Competences; Environmental competitiveness; Environmental dynamism

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054831714     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111173934     Document Type: Article

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