Optimal cognitive distance and absorptive capacity

Academy of Management 2005 Annual Meeting: A New Vision of Management in the 21st Century, AOM 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Nooteboom, Bart ^a   Vanhaverbeke, Wim ^b,c   Duysters, Geert ^c   Gilsing, Victor ^c   Van Den Oord, Ad ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive distance; Interoganizational learning; Strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; COGNITIVE DISTANCE; INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE; INTER-FIRM ALLIANCES; INTEROGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; STRATEGIC ALLIANCE;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84859019081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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