How much to copy? determinants of effective imitation breadth

Organization Science

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 661-676

  Csaszar, Felipe A ^a   Siggelkow, Nicolaj ^b  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Imitation; NK models; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956998064     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0477     Document Type: Article

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