Built to last or meant to end: Intertemporal choice in strategic alliance portfolios

Organization Science

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 256-276

  Bakker, Rene M ^a   Knoben, Joris ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Interorganizational relationships; Intertemporal choice; Strategic alliance design; Time and temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923296048     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2014.0903     Document Type: Article

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