The Structure of Problem-solving Knowledge and the Structure of Organizations

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 757-787

  Marengo, Luigi ^a   Dosi, Giovanni ^b   Legrenzi, Paolo ^c   Pasquali, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

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