Entry-timing strategies: The road ahead

Long Range Planning

Volumn 46, Issue 4-5, 2013, Pages 300-311

  Fosfuri, Andrea ^a   Lanzolla, Gianvito ^b   Suarez, Fernando F ^c  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; ENTRY TIMING; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORK; PREDICTIVE POWER;

FINANCE;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

BUSINESS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MODELING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84883457583     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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