Organising the interplay between exploitation and exploration: The case of interactive development of an information system

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 96-105

  Hjelmgren, Daniel ^a   Dubois, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Exploitation; Exploration; Interaction; Interdependence; Organising

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873567146     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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