Strategy process research and the RBV: Social barriers to imitation

Handbook of Research on Strategy Process

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 90-108

  Regnér, Patrick ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

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