Organizational capabilities and business performance: When and how does the dark side of managerial ties matter?

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 55, Issue , 2016, Pages 70-82

  Chung, Henry F L ^a   Wang, Cheng Lu ^b   Huang, Pei How ^c   Yang, Zhilin ^d  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Dark side; Organizational capability; Organizational networking; Personalized relationships; Political and business ties; Resource dependence theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959888306     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2016.02.014     Document Type: Article

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