Unmixed signals: How reputation and status affect alliance formation

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 512-531

  Stern, Ithai ^a   Dukerich, Janet M ^b   Zajac, Edward ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alliance formation; newly emerging firms; quality signals; reputation; status

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ALLIANCE FORMATION; EMERGING FIRMS; QUALITY SIGNALS; REPUTATION; STATUS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84895928568     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2116     Document Type: Article

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