Archetypes of Inter-firm Relations in the Implementation of Management Innovation: A Set-theoretic Study in China's Biopharmaceutical Industry

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 121-145

  Meuer, Johannes ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

China; inter firm relations; management innovation; organizational archetypes; set theoretic analysis (fsQCA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891671411     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613495339     Document Type: Article

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