The impact of financial slack on explorative and exploitative knowledge sourcing from universities: Evidence from the UK

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 689-706

  Bruneel, Johan ^a   D'Este, Pablo ^b   Salter, Ammon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; KNOWLEDGE; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85011060246     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtv045     Document Type: Article

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