How initial representations shape coupled learning processes

Organization Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 323-335

  Puranam, Phanish ^a   Swamy, Murali ^b  

^a INSEAD   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Coupled learning; Organization design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963549080     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2015.1033     Document Type: Article

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