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16 - Technology Alliance Portfolios and Radical Innovation

The Role of Different Alliance Portfolio Information Processing Mechanisms

from Part VI - Alliance Portfolios and Multilateral Alliances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2019

By
Dries Faems ,
Inge Neyens ,
Geert Duysters  and
Maddy Janssens
Edited by
Farok J. Contractor  and
Jeffrey J. Reuer
Farok J. Contractor
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Jeffrey J. Reuer
Affiliation:
University of Colorado Boulder
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Frontiers of Strategic Alliance Research
Negotiating, Structuring and Governing Partnerships
 , pp. 269 - 283
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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