Response to Farjoun's 'strategy making, novelty, and analogical reasoning - Commentary on Gavetti, Levinthal, and Rivkin (2005)'

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1017-1021

  Gavetti, Giovanni ^a   Levinthal, Daniel A ^b   Rivkin, Jan W ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogical reasoning; Cognition; Fitness landscapes; Strategy making

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE LEARNING; ANALOGICAL REASONING; COGNITION; FITNESS LANDSCAPES; STRATEGY-MAKING;

HELIUM;

EID: 50849092549     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.691     Document Type: Review

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