Organizing R&D Consortia for Path Creation and Extension: The Case of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technologies

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 907-936

  Sydow, Jörg ^a   Windeler, Arnold ^b   Schubert, Cornelius ^b   Möllering, Guido ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

innovation; organizational fields; path creation; path dependence; R D consortia; semiconductor industry; structuration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863751562     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612448029     Document Type: Article

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