Simultaneous experimentation as a learning strategy: Business model development under uncertainty

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 288-310

  Andries, Petra ^a   Debackere, Koenraad ^a   van Looy, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Business models; Experimentation; Organizational learning; Uncertainty; Variety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889676215     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1170     Document Type: Article

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