Balancing your technology-sourcing portfolio: How sourcing mode diversity enhances innovative performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 610-621

  Van De Vrande, Vareska ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

diversity; external technology sourcing; innovation; sourcing portfolios; technological proximity

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY; INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE OUTCOME; PHARMACEUTICAL FIRMS; SOURCING PORTFOLIOS; STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS; TECHNOLOGICAL PROXIMITY; TECHNOLOGY SOURCING;

INDUSTRY;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84875641630     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2031     Document Type: Review

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