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5 - Using Alliances to Test Core Theories of Strategic and International Management

The Case of the Resource-Based View

from Part I - Theory and Future Directions in Alliance Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2019

Farok J. Contractor
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Rutgers University, New Jersey
Jeffrey J. Reuer
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Frontiers of Strategic Alliance Research
Negotiating, Structuring and Governing Partnerships
, pp. 83 - 98
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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