Resolving the Commitment vs. Flexibility Trade-Off: The Role of Resource Accumulation Lags

We examine how time-consuming resource accumulation influences the classic strategy trade-off between commitment and flexibility. In particular, using 1975-95 data from the worldwide petrochemical ...

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