Where Do New Organizational Forms Come From? Management Logics as a Source of Coevolution

Organization Science

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 569-582

  Dijksterhuis, Marjolijn S ^a   Van Den Bosch, Frans A J ^a   Volberda, Henk W ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Management logics; Organization form; Shared managerial schemas

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033269834     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.10.5.569     Document Type: Article

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