ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION AND MODULAR CORPORATE FORMS.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 December 2001
D. Charles Galunic, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
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Based on an intensive and inductive study of a Fortune 100 corporation, this article describes how dynamic capabilities that reconfigure division resources—that is, architectural innovation—may ope...
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