Opportunity and constraint: Organizations' learning from the operating and competitive experience of industries

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 18, Issue SPEC. ISS., 1997, Pages 75-98

  Ingram, Paul ^a   Baum, Joel A C ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Franchising; Organizational failure; Organizational learning; Population learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 20944437662     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0266(199707)18:1+<75::aid-smj922>3.3.co;2-y     Document Type: Article

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