Leveraging supplier capabilities: The role of locus of capability deployment

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-21

  Weigelt, Carmen ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

banking; complementary capabilities; firm performance; outsourcing; supplier capabilities

Indexed keywords

BANKING; COMPLEMENTARY CAPABILITIES; FIRM PERFORMANCE; GAIN PERFORMANCE; IT CAPABILITIES; MULTIPLE CLIENTS; OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; SUPPLIER CAPABILITIES; TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS;

INDUSTRY;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870548770     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.1998     Document Type: Article

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