Strategic Renewal as Improvisation: Reconciling the Tension Between Exploration and Exploitation

Advances in Strategic Management

Volumn 23, Issue , 2006, Pages 273-298

  Crossan, Mary M ^a   Hurst, David K ^a  

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EID: 33745712456     PISSN: 07423322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-3322(06)23009-2     Document Type: Review

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