Replication of Organizational Routines: Conceptualizing the Exploitation of Knowledge Assets

Sidney G. Winter e-mail: winter@wharton.upenn.edu phone: (215) 898-4140 Gabriel Szulanski e-mail: szulanski@wharton.upenn.edu phone: (215) 573-9627 The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Department of Management 2000 Steinberg Hall - Dietrich Hall Phildelphia, PA 19104-6370 Fax: (215) 898-0401 Revised: November 2000 Forthcoming in: The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge: A Collection of Readings To be published by: Oxford University Press, New York Edited by: Nick Bontis and Chun Wei Choo

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