Speed and search: Designing organizations for turbulence and complexity

Organization Science

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 101-122

  Siggelkow, Nicolaj ^a   Rivkin, Jan W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Interactions; Organizational design; Simulation model; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 18944363113     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1050.0116     Document Type: Article

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