The Disaggregation of Corporations: Selective Intervention, High-powered Incentives, and Molecular Units

Organization Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 209-222

  Zenger, Todd R ^a   Hesterly, William S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Incentives; Markets and Hierarchies; New Organizational Forms; Organization Economics; Vertical Integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031483665     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.8.3.209     Document Type: Article

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