ORGANIZATIONAL CONFIGURATIONS AND PERFORMANCE: A META-ANALYSIS.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 February 1997
David J. Ketchen, James G. Combs, Craig J. Russell, Chris Shook, Michelle A. Dean, Janet Runge
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The link between organizational configurations and performance has become a central and somewhat controversial focus of research in the strategic management literature. We statistically aggregated ...
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