Reducing Complexity by Creating Complexity: A Systems Theory Perspective on How Organizations Respond to Their Environments

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 182-208

  Schneider, Anselm ^a   Wickert, Christopher ^b   Marti, Emilio ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

collaborative complexity; corporate social responsibility (CSR); environmental complexity; internal complexity; interorganizational collaboration; social systems theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964598972     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12206     Document Type: Article

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