Built to last but falling apart: Cohesion, friction and the durability of interfirm alliances

Academy of Management 2008 Annual Meeting: The Questions We Ask, AOM 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Greve, Henrich R ^a   Baum, Joel A C ^b   Mitsuhashi, Hitoshi ^c   Rowley, Tim ^b  

^a INSEAD   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alliance exit; Network dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; FRICTION;

ALLIANCE EXIT; ALLIANCE FORMATION; INTER-FIRM ALLIANCES; MARKET COMPETITION; NETWORK DYNAMICS; NETWORK EVOLUTION; SHIPPING INDUSTRY; TIME-DEPENDENT EFFECTS;

COMPETITION;

EID: 85087245975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2008.33628213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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