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Volume 31, Issue 5
September-October 2020
Pages 1053-1312, C2-C3
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- Received:December 21, 2016
- Accepted:October 25, 2019
- Published Online:February 28, 2020
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Felipe A. Csaszar, James Ostler (2020) A Contingency Theory of Representational Complexity in Organizations. Organization Science 31(5):1198-1219.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1346
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The authors thank Gautam Ahuja, Jeho Lee, and Saerom Lee for helpful comments. The authors also thank the seminar participants at the University of Michigan, Seoul National University, the Organization Science Winter Conference 2017, the Utah/BYU Winter Strategy Conference, INSEAD, Purdue University, and New York University. Any errors are the authors’ own responsibility.
