Innovation and imitation as sources of sustainable competitive advantage

Management Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 71-82

  Pérez Luño, Ana ^a   Valle Cabrera, Ramón ^a   Wiklund, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Entrepreneurship; Imitation; Innovation; Market orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015009932     PISSN: 15365433     EISSN: 15580946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/JMR1536-5433050201     Document Type: Article

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