Learning the Innovation Journey: Order out of Chaos?

Organization Science

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 593-614

  Cheng, Yu Ting ^a   Van De Ven, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Dynamical Systems Theory; Innovation; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030375320     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.7.6.593     Document Type: Article

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