Community-focused strategies

Strategic Organization

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 222-239

  Fosfuri, Andrea ^a   Giarratana, Marco S ^b   Roca, Esther ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION   (Spain)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

communities; competitive advantage; firm strategies; identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860396506     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127011415248     Document Type: Article

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