Davids against Goliath? Collective identities and the market success of peripheral organizations during resource partitioning

Organization Science

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 293-309

  Liu, Min ^a   Wezel, Filippo Carlo ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

And audience preferences; Producers' identities; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923308615     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2014.0914     Document Type: Article

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