Strategic Implications for (Non-Equity) Alliance Performance

Long Range Planning

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 451-476

  Gudergan, Siegfried P ^a   Devinney, Timothy ^b   Richter, Nicole Franziska ^c   Ellis, R Susan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIANCE PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE CAPABILITIES; CROSS INDUSTRY;

FINANCE;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84870393342     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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