The Radical Flank Effect and Cross-occupational Collaboration for Technology Development during a Power Shift

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 662-701

  Truelove, Emily ^a   Kellogg, Katherine C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation and inertia in technology based organizations; conflict; coordination; cross occupational collaboration; intra organizational power struggles; power; radical flank effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994086973     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839216647679     Document Type: Article

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