Antecedents of knowledge competency and performance in born globals: The moderating effects of absorptive capacity

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1361-1381

  Park, Taekyung ^a   Rhee, Jaehoon ^a  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Born globals; Business performance; Competences; International business experience of managers; Knowledge competency; Network number; South Korea

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865354596     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211261971     Document Type: Article

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