Make, buy, organize: The interplay between research, external knowledge, and firm structure

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 317-337

  Arora, Ashish ^a   Belenzon, Sharon ^a   Rios, Luis A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

decentralization; market value; mergers and acquisitions; organizational structure; patents; R D

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TECHNOLOGY; DECENTRALIZATION; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; INNOVATION RESEARCH; INNOVATION STRATEGY; MARKET VALUES; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; PATENTS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; RESEARCH;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84893730197     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2098     Document Type: Article

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