Skill relatedness and firm diversification

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 297-316

  Neffke, Frank ^a,b,c   Henning, Martin ^d,e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

diversification; human capital; labor flows; relatedness; skills

Indexed keywords

DIVERSIFICATION; HUMAN CAPITALS; LABOR FLOW; RELATEDNESS; SKILLS;

MANAGEMENT; PLANNING;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84872807432     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2014     Document Type: Article

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