How is ambidexterity initiated? The emergent charter definition process

Organization Science

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1119-1139

  Zimmermann, Alexander ^a   Raisch, Sebastian ^b   Birkinshaw, Julian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alliances; Ambidexterity; Charters; Comparative case study; Strategy process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980370970     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2015.0971     Document Type: Article

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