Who shall get more? How intangible assets and aspiration levels affect the valuation of resource providers

Strategic Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 6-31

  Ertug, Gokhan ^a   Castellucci, Fabrizio ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aspiration levels; intangible assets; regression analysis; reputation; status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921417365     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127014561019     Document Type: Article

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