Sell-off or shut-down? alliance portfolio diversity and two types of high tech firms' exit

Strategic Organization

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-30

  Bruyaka, Olga ^a   Durand, Rodolphe ^b  

^a PAMPLIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS   (United States)

^b HEC PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

alliance portfolio diversity; biotechnology; exit; high tech firms; sell off; shut down

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856604114     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127011432366     Document Type: Article

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