Kitchen confidential? Norms for the use of transferred knowledge in gourmet cuisine

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1645-1670

  Di Stefano, Giada ^a   King, Andrew A ^b   Verona, Gianmario ^c  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

social norms; knowledge transfer; institutional theory; thick rationality; intellectual property

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; PLANNING;

FIELD EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; KNOWLEDGE USE; SOCIAL NORM; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84907933067     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2179     Document Type: Article

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