Complementarity in Organizations

The Handbook of Organizational Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 11-55

  Brynjolfsson, Erik ^a   Milgrom, Paul ^b  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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