Understanding complementarities as organizational configurations: Using set theoretical methods

Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Volumn 38, Issue , 2013, Pages 129-158

  Jackson, Gregory ^a   Ni, Na ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Complementarities; Corporate governance; Japan; Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981507350     PISSN: 0733558X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X(2013)0000038010     Document Type: Chapter

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