Interaction Value Analysis: When Structured Communication Benefits Organizations

Organization Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 541-557

  Nasrallah, Walid ^a   Levitt, Raymond ^b   Glynn, Peter ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centralization; Communication; Firm Structure; Game Theory; Interaction Value Analysis; Organizational Contingency Theory; Queuing Theory; Social Networks; Welfare Economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142135948     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.14.5.541.16764     Document Type: Article

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