Finding the organizational sources of technological breakthroughs: the story of Hewlett-Packard's thermal ink-jet
Industrial and Corporate ChangePublished 30 October 2002
Lee Fleming
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Journal Article Finding the organizational sources of technological breakthroughs: the story of Hewlett‐Packard's thermal ink‐jet Get access Lee Fleming Lee Fleming Lee Fleming, Harvard Business School, Morgan Hall T97, Boston, MA 02163, USA. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 11, Issue 5, November 2002, Pages 1059–1084, https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/11.5.1059 Published: 01 November 2002
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