The semiformal organization

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1306-1324

  Biancani, Susan ^a   McFarland, Daniel A ^a   Dahlander, Linus ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Innovation; Network analysis; Organizational form; Organizational structure; Social networks; Sociology of science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907589372     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0882     Document Type: Article

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