Industry growth and the knowledge spillover regime: Does outsourcing harm innovativeness but help profit?

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2007-2016

  Stanko, Michael A ^a   Olleros, Xavier ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustering; Innovativeness; Knowledge spillover; Labor mobility; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878650108     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.02.026     Document Type: Article

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