Organization design: The epistemic interdependence perspective

Academy of Management Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 419-440

  Puranam, Phanish ^a   Raveendran, Marlo ^a   Knudsen, Thorbjørn ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 84862509402     PISSN: 03637425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amr.2010.0535     Document Type: Review

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