Benefiting From Alliance Portfolio Diversity: The Role of Past Internal Knowledge Creation Strategy

Journal of Management

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1653-1674

  Wuyts, Stefan ^a,b   Dutta, Shantanu ^c  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

absorptive capacity; alliance portfolios; diversity; knowledge creation; superior product innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907076574     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206312442339     Document Type: Article

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