The Paradox of Standard Flexibility: The Effects of Co-evolution between Standard and Interorganizational Network

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 705-736

  van den Ende, Jan ^a   van de Kaa, Geerten ^b   den Uijl, Simon ^c   de Vries, Henk J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

co evolution; interorganizational networks; path dependency; standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873818914     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612443625     Document Type: Article

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