Mitigating Underinvestment Through an IT-Enabled Organization Form

Organization Science

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-234

  Nault, Barrie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Franchising; Horizontal Externalities; Network Organizations; Organization Design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031484188     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.8.3.223     Document Type: Article

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