Exploration and exploitation: Internal variety and environmental dynamism

Strategic Organization

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-41

  Kim, Tohyun ^a   Rhee, Mooweon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental dynamism; Exploration and exploitation; Internal variety; Organizational adaptation

Indexed keywords

EID: 59549095140     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127008100125     Document Type: Article

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