Beyond local search: Boundary-spanning, exploration, and impact in the optical disk industry

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 287-306

  Rosenkopf, Lori ^a   Nerkar, Atul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary spanning; Exploration; Innovation; Knowledge creation; Patent data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000825387     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.160     Document Type: Article

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