Complex Business Models: Managing Strategic Paradoxes Simultaneously

2010/02/09 by Wendy K. Smith, Andy Binns, Michael L. Tushman · 559 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · #Business #Business Strategy and Innovation #Business model #Competitive advantage #Computer science #Innovation and Knowledge Management #Innovation and Socioeconomic Development #Knowledge management #Marketing #Process management #Sociology #Vision

paper · doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2009.12.003

published in Long Range Planning 43(2-3), 448-461 (Elsevier BV)

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