Incomplete by design and designing for incompleteness

Organization Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-371

  Garud, Raghu ^a,d   Jain, Sanjay ^b,e   Tuertscher, Philipp ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e 4271 Grainger Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Emergence; Innovation community; Platform

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749130045     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607088018     Document Type: Article

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