What Firms Do? Coordination, Identity, and Learning

Organization Science

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 502-518

  Kogut, Bruce ^a   Zander, Udo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Complementarities; Coordination; Identity; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030496995     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.7.5.502     Document Type: Article

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