Interdependence, Complementarity, and Ruggedness of Performance Landscapes

The author is grateful to Bob Gibbons, Nelson Repenning, Jan Rivkin, Nicolaj Siggelkow, John Sterman, Ezra Zuckerman, and seminar participants at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, Strategy Science conference, and Theoretical Organization Models meeting for valuable conversations that motivated and informed this project. Excellent feedback from Dan Levinthal and two anonymous reviewers was instrumental in enhancing the paper throughout the review process. All errors are the author’s own.