Facts and figuring: An experimental investigation of network structure and performance in information and solution spaces

Organization Science

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1432-1446

  Shore, Jesse ^a   Bernstein, Ethan ^b   Lazer, David ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Communication; Experiments; Exploration and exploitation; Information; Knowledge; Networks; Problem solving; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997343329     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2015.0980     Document Type: Article

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