Organizing for product development across technological environments: Performance trade-offs and priorities

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1000-1025

  Cardinal, Laura B ^a   Turner, Scott F ^b   Fern, Michael J ^c   Burton, Richard M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c FernStrategy Inc   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation; New product development; OrganIZational design; Qualitative research; Research triangulation; Simulation; Technological environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960885565     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0577     Document Type: Article

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