The Management of Resources: Temporal Effects of Different Types of Actions on Performance

Journal of Management

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 928-957

  Bridoux, Flore ^a   Smith, Ken G ^b   Grimm, Curtis M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

competitive dynamics; persistence of impact; resource management actions; time to performance impact; total impact over time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875977896     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206311426188     Document Type: Article

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