Change and Complementarities in the New Competitive Landscape: A European Panel Study, 1992-1996

Organization Science

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 583-600

  Whittington, Richard ^a   Pettigrew, Andrew ^b   Peck, Simon ^c   Fenton, Evelyn ^b   Conyon, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complementarities; New organizational forms; Organization structure; Organizational configurations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033271225     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.10.5.583     Document Type: Article

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