Neo-Carnegie: The Carnegie School's past, present, and reconstructing for the future

Organization Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 523-536

  Gavetti, Giovanni ^a   Levinthal, Daniel ^b   Ocasio, William ^c  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Carnegie School; Decision making; Loose coupling

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349086127     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0277     Document Type: Article

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