Open innovation and organizational boundaries: Task decomposition, knowledge distribution and the locus of innovation

Handbook of Economic Organization: Integrating Economic and Organization Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 355-382

  Lakhani, Karim R ^a   Lifshitz Assaf, Hila ^a   Tushman, Michael L ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 84970990280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781782548225.00030     Document Type: Chapter

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