Landscape Design: Designing for Local Action in Complex Worlds

Organization Science

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 342-357

  Levinthal, Daniel A ^a   Warglien, Massimo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Coordination; Landscape Theory; Organizational Adaptation; Organizational Design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033426290     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.10.3.342     Document Type: Article

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