Strategic renewal over time: The enabling role of potential absorptive capacity in aligning internal and external rates of change

Long Range Planning

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 216-235

  Ben Menahem, Shiko M ^a   Kwee, Zenlin ^b   Volberda, Henk W ^a   Van Den Bosch, Frans A J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Technology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; DEGREE OF ALIGNMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING; EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE; MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL MECHANISMS; SHARED UNDERSTANDING;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANAGERS;

INDUSTRY;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; OIL INDUSTRY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84879838399     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2012.09.012     Document Type: Article

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