When the market misleads: Stock prices, firm behavior, and industry evolution

Organization Science

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 637-660

  Kock, Carl Joachim ^a  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Financial markets; Institutional theory; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144503933     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1050.0141     Document Type: Review

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