This paper treats organizations as adaptive systems that have to match the complexity of their environments. The nature of this complexity is analyzed by linking an institutiona...
Abstract Alliances and similar cooperative efforts are receiving increased attention in the strategic management literature. These relationships differ in significant ways from ...
This paper presents an intraorganizational ecological perspective on strategy making, and examines how internal selection may combine with external selection to explain organiza...
ABSTRACT Comparative, contingency approaches to organization structure have been criticized as being inherently static. The present article argues that functionalist theories an...
Replication, a familiar phenomenon sometimes referred to as the “McDonalds approach,” entails the creation and operation of a large number of similar outlets that deliver a prod...
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