Organizational Module Design and Architectural Inertia: Evidence from Structural Recombination of Business Divisions
Published Online:7 Jun 2018https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2018.1210
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- Received:October 27, 2015
- Accepted:March 11, 2018
- Published Online:June 07, 2018
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Daniel Albert (2018) Organizational Module Design and Architectural Inertia: Evidence from Structural Recombination of Business Divisions. Organization Science 29(5):890-911.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2018.1210
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The author thanks Adam Castor, John Eklund, Markus Kreutzer, Tomi Laamanen, Christoph Lechner, Arjan Marcus, Anoop Menon, Shefali Patil, Ram Ranganathan, Nicolaj Siggelkow, Ehsan Soofi, Marijana Vujkovic, and Tyler Wry for helpful comments on earlier versions of this research. The author also thanks Phanish Puranam and two anonymous reviewers for their excellent guidance.
