Fast-mover advantages: Speed capabilities and entry into the emerging submarket of atlantic basin LNG

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1531-1550

  Hawk, Ashton ^a   Pacheco De Almeida, Gonçalo ^b   Yeung, Bernard ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEC PARIS   (France)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

firm capabilities; first mover advantages; new market entry; project management; speed; strategy dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; GAS INDUSTRY; INVESTMENTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SPEED;

ATLANTIC BASIN; BENEFITS AND COSTS; FIRM CAPABILITIES; FIRST MOVER ADVANTAGES; INVESTMENT PROJECTS; LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG); NEW MARKET ENTRIES; SPEED CAPABILITY;

LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS;

EID: 84886590828     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2085     Document Type: Article

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