Filling empty seats: How status and organizational hierarchies affect exploration versus exploitation in team design

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 759-777

  Perretti, Fabrizio ^a   Negro, Giacomo ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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EID: 33749005970     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2006.22083032     Document Type: Article

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