Designing work within and between organizations

Organization Science

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 389-408

  Sinha, Kingshuk K ^a   Van De Ven, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex network; Hierarchical decomposition; Modularity; Production frontier; Work design

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344440720     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1050.0130     Document Type: Review

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