Meta-organization design: Rethinking design in interorganizational and community contexts

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 571-586

  Gulati, Ranjay ^a   Puranam, Phanish ^b   Tushman, Michael ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

communities; design; interorganizational relationships; meta organization

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ENTITIES; COLLECTIVE ACTION; CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; KEY PARAMETERS; META-ORGANIZATION;

ECOSYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84859719173     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.1975     Document Type: Article

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