Learning while (re)configuring: Business model innovation processes in established firms

Strategic Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 181-219

  Berends, Hans ^a   Smits, Armand ^b   Reymen, Isabelle ^c   Podoynitsyna, Ksenia ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

business model; cognitive search; experiential learning; innovation; organizational learning; process research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979996193     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127016632758     Document Type: Article

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