Ecosystem advantage: How to successfully harness the power of partners

California Management Review

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-46

  Williamson, Peter James ^a   De Meyer, Arnoud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Networks; Organizational structure; Value creation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868346825     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: 21628564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cmr.2012.55.1.24     Document Type: Article

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