Strategic flexibility in product competition

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1 S, 1995, Pages 135-159

  Sanchez, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

coordination flexibility; dominant logic; managerial innovation; resource flexibility; strategic flexibility; technological innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989078094     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.4250160921     Document Type: Article

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