Differentiation and Integration in Complex Organizations
1967/06/01 by Paul R. Lawrence, Jay W. Lorsch · 3,883 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · #Business #Business Strategy and Innovation #Economic geography #Geography #Process management
paper · doi:10.2307/2391211
published in Administrative Science Quarterly 12(1), 1 (SAGE Publishing)
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