Overcoming the challenge of exploration: How decompartmentalization of internal communication enhances the effect of exploration on employee inventive performance
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Exploration; Decompartmentalization of internal communication; Boundary spanning; Inventor performance; Information processing perspective of organizational design; Social aspect of organizational context;All these keywords.
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