“…the underlying pattern of interactions among productive activities at the industry level) may influence the long-term benefits of an organization's exploratory and exploitative efforts. In particular, we refer to decomposability as the distribution pattern of interdependencies (Ethiraj, Levinthal, & Roy, 2008;Rivkin & Siggelkow, 2007;Yayavaram & Ahuja, 2008;Zhou, 2013). A set of productive activities is highly decomposable when interdependencies among individual groups of activities are limited in number and weak in intensity as compared to those occurring within each group, which are many in number and strong in intensity (Simon, 1962(Simon, , 2002.…”