Resource dependency, innovative strategies, and firm performance in BOP markets

Journal of Product Innovation Management

Volumn 31, Issue S1, 2014, Pages 43-59

  Schuster, Tassilo ^a   Holtbrügge, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; INVESTMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE DEPENDENCIES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TRANSACTION-COST THEORY;

COSTS;

EID: 84912524947     PISSN: 07376782     EISSN: 15405885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jpim.12191     Document Type: Review

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