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Volume 29, Issue 6
November-December 2018
Pages 989-1236, C2
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- Received:July 12, 2016
- Accepted:March 25, 2018
- Published Online:July 16, 2018
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Sam Arts, Lee Fleming (2018) Paradise of Novelty—Or Loss of Human Capital? Exploring New Fields and Inventive Output. Organization Science 29(6):1074-1092.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2018.1216
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The authors thank participants in presentations at the Haas Innovation and Management and Organization seminars, MIT Sloan ties seminar, Tsinghua University, the 2015 SMS and AOM junior faculty consortia, the 2015 Academy of Management conference, the 2017 DRUID conference, the OECD Blue Sky conference, and the Quantifying Science workshop at the Conference on Complex Systems as well as Ben Balsmeier, Michael Bikard, Bruno Cassiman, Dirk Czarnitzki, Gustavo Manso, Matt Marx, Hanne Peeters, and Sandy Yu for the helpful feedback. Errors and omissions remain those of the authors.
