Growing pains: Pre-entry experience and the challenge of transition to incumbency

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 252-276

  Chen, Pao Lien ^a   Williams, Charles ^b   Agarwal, Rajshree ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic capabilities; entrepreneurship; evolution; growth; reconfiguration.

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; EVOLUTION; NEW INDUSTRY; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; RECONFIGURATION.; TECHNOLOGICAL DISCONTINUITIES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

GROWTH (MATERIALS); TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84860396566     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.954     Document Type: Article

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