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Volume 26, Issue 6
November-December 2015
Pages 1553-1804
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Pamela R. Haunschild, Francisco Polidoro Jr., David Chandler (2015) Organizational Oscillation Between Learning and Forgetting: The Dual Role of Serious Errors. Organization Science 26(6):1682-1701.
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The authors would like to thank their editor, Giovanni Gavetti, and two anonymous Organization Science reviewers for their insightful and constructive guidance throughout the review process. In addition, they thankfully acknowledge comments provided on an earlier version of this manuscript by Linda Argote, Vinit Desai, Peter Madsen, and Anne Miner. Finally, the authors express their gratitude to seminar participants at the University of Texas at Austin, Bocconi University, the University of Colorado Denver, and the Organizational Learning conference in Asilomar, California, who all contributed helpful comments at various stages in the evolution of this paper.
