Interorganizational collaboration and firm innovativeness: Unpacking the role of the organizational environment

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 974-984

  Alexiev, Alexander S ^a   Volberda, Henk W ^b   Van den Bosch, Frans A J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competitive intensity; Environmental turbulence; Firm innovativeness; Interorganizational collaboration; Market heterogeneity; Organizational environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949318784     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.09.002     Document Type: Article

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