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  • March 2003
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  • Management Science

Balancing Search and Stability: Interdependencies Among Elements of Organizational Design

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow
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Keywords

Balance and Stability; Organizational Design

Citation

Rivkin, Jan W., and Nicolaj Siggelkow. "Balancing Search and Stability: Interdependencies Among Elements of Organizational Design." Management Science 49, no. 3 (March 2003): 290–311.
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Jan W. Rivkin

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