Best-fit Alliance Partners: The Use of Critical Success Factors in a Comprehensive Partner Selection Process

Long Range Planning

Volumn 45, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 136-159

  Cummings, Jeffrey L ^a   Holmberg, Stevan R ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS PROCESS; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; ENHANCE LEARNING; PARTNER SELECTION; STRATEGIC ALLIANCE;

COMPETITION; INDUSTRY; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORPORATE STRATEGY; MANAGEMENT; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; RESEARCH;

EID: 84860365492     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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