Replication as Strategy

Organization Science

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 730-743

  Winter, Sidney G ^a   Szulanski, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploitation and exploration; Franchise; Knowledge creation and use; Replication; Template

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035624476     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.12.6.730.10084     Document Type: Article

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