Temporarily Divide to Conquer: Centralized, Decentralized, and Reintegrated Organizational Approaches to Exploration and Adaptation

Organization Science

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Siggelkow, Nicolaj ^a   Levinthal, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity Systems; Agent Based Simulations; E Commerce; Organizational Adaptation; Organizational Design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0942268003     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.14.6.650.24840     Document Type: Article

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