Towards an attention-based view of the firm

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 18, Issue SPEC. ISS., 1997, Pages 187-206

  Ocasio, William ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Social structure; Theory of the firm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038343725     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0266(199707)18:1+<187::aid-smj936>3.3.co;2-b     Document Type: Article

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