Changing organizational designs and performance frontiers

Organization Science

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1055-1076

  Van de Ven, Andrew H ^a   Leung, Ricky ^b   Bechara, John P ^c   Sun, Kangyong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Frontier analysis; Organization design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867072326     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0694     Document Type: Article

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