The complexity of the business network context and its effect on subsidiary relational (over-) embeddedness

International Business Review

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1087-1098

  Nell, Phillip C ^a   Andersson, Ulf ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Business networks; Environmental complexity; Network context; Subsidiary relational embeddedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867894372     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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