Historical roots of the a Behavioral Theory of the Firm model at GSIA

Organization Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 507-522

  Augier, Mie ^a   Prietula, Michael ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral Theory; Computational models; GSIA; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349193223     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0276     Document Type: Article

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