Looking inside the dream team: Probing into the contributions of tacit knowledge as an organizational resource

Organization Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 513-529

  Shamsie, Jamal ^a   Mannor, Michael J ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive strategy; Organizational learning; Resource based approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877664356     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1120.0741     Document Type: Article

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