Strategy making, novelty and analogical reasoning - Commentary on Gavetti, Levinthal, and Rivkin (2005)

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1001-1016

  Farjoun, Moshe ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abduction; Cognition; Design; Entrepreneurship; Industry evolution; Strategic innovation

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

ABDUCTION; COGNITION; DESIGN; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; INDUSTRY EVOLUTION; STRATEGIC INNOVATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EID: 50849088038     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.690     Document Type: Review

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