Balancing search and stability: Interdependencies among elements of organizational design

Management Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 290-311

  Rivkin, Jan W ^a   Siggelkow, Nicolaj ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent Based Simulation; Interactions; Organizational Design; Organizational Search; Organizational Structure; Stability; Vertical Hierachy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STABILITY;

ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0038209523     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.49.3.290.12740     Document Type: Article

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