Searching, shaping, and the quest for superior performance

Strategy Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 194-209

  Gavetti, Giovanni ^a   Helfat, Constance E ^a   Marengo, Luigi ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Competitive advantage; Endogenous landscape; NK models; Overshaping; Searching; Shaping

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045128453     PISSN: 23332050     EISSN: 23332077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2017.0036     Document Type: Article

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