Towards an Understanding of Cognitive Coordination: Theoretical Developments and Empirical Illustrations

Organization Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1201-1226

  Foss, Nicolai ^a,b   Lorenzen, Mark ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Analogies; Cognition; Coordination; Game theory; Industrial clusters

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450216349     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609337956     Document Type: Article

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