Greener pastures: Outside options and strategic alliance withdrawal

Organization Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-98

  Greve, Henrich R ^a   Mitsuhashi, Hitoshi ^b   Baum, Joel A C ^c  

^a INSEAD   (Singapore)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alliance withdrawal; Embeddedness; Interorganizational networks; Market complementarity; Matching theory; Rivalry; Shipping industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873305874     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0733     Document Type: Article

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