Entrepreneurial firms' network competence, technological capability, and new product development performance

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 687-704

  Yu, Bo ^a   Hao, Shengbin ^a   Ahlstrom, David ^b   Si, Steven ^c   Liang, Dapeng ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Market turbulence; Network competence; New product development (NPD) performance; Technological capability; Technological turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907356469     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-013-9365-5     Document Type: Article

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