Learning to design organizations and learning from designing them

Organization Science

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-178

  Dunbar, Roger L M ^a   Starbuck, William H ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Fit; Learning; Organization design; Research issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645578983     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0181     Document Type: Article

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