Oppositional identities and resource partitioning: Distillery ownership in Scotch whisky, 1826-2009

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1272-1286

  McKendrick, David G ^a   Hannan, Michael T ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiences; Categories; Organization theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904860876     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0865     Document Type: Article

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