Perspective-taking as an organizational capability

Strategic Organization

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-205

  Litchfield, Robert C ^a   Gentry, Richard J ^b  

^a WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

absorptive capacity; ambidexterity; innovation; knowledge integration; microfoundations; organizational capability; perspective taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955743569     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127010374249     Document Type: Article

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