Impact of growth opportunities and competition on firm-level capability development trade-offs

Organization Science

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 138-154

  Rahmandad, Hazhir ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Capability; Competition; Dynamics; Firm performance; Resource based view; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865075085     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0628     Document Type: Article

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