Strategic Learning: The Continuous Side of Discontinuous Strategic Change

Organization Science

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 719-736

  Kuwada, Kotaro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Knowledge Distillation; Organizational Learning; Strategic Learning; Strategic Reorientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032286663     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.9.6.719     Document Type: Article

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