Assessing organizational fitness on a dynamic landscape: An empirical test of the relative inertia thesis

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 837-853

  Ruef, Martin ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospitals; Organization environment relations; Organizational change; Selection process; Structural inertia

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; MARKETING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ORGANIZATIONAL ECOLOGY THEORY; RELATIVE STRUCTURAL INERTIA HYPOTHESIS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0031361373     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199712)18:11<837::AID-SMJ917>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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