Complexity, networks and knowledge flow

Research Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 994-1017

  Sorenson, Olav ^a   Rivkin, Jan W ^b   Fleming, Lee ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Diffusion; Information; Knowledge; Social networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA TRANSFER; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ONLINE SEARCHING;

INVENTOR COLLABORATION; MODERATE COMPLEXITY; MODULARIZATION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 33747414088     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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