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  • December 1997
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  • European Management Journal

What is the Optimum Amount of Organizational Slack? A Study of the Relationship Between Slack and Innovation in Multinational Firms

By: Ranjay Gulati and Nitin Nohria
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Keywords

Organizations; Relationships; Business Ventures; Innovation and Invention

Citation

Gulati, Ranjay, and Nitin Nohria. "What is the Optimum Amount of Organizational Slack? A Study of the Relationship Between Slack and Innovation in Multinational Firms." European Management Journal 15, no. 6 (December 1997): 603–611. (This is a longer version of the paper we jointly published in Academy Management Journal in 1996.)
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Ranjay Gulati

Organizational Behavior
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Nitin Nohria

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