Designing organizations that design environments: Lessons from entrepreneurial expertise

Organization Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 331-350

  Sarasvathy, Saras D ^a   Dew, Nicholas ^b   Read, Stuart ^c   Wiltbank, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c IMD   (Switzerland)

^d WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effectuation; Goal ambiguity; Isotropy; Science of the artificial; Starbucks; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749090804     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607088017     Document Type: Article

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