Organizational complexity and innovation: Developing and testing multiple contingency models

Management Science

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 693-716

  Damanpour, Fariborz ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency Model; Meta analysis; Organizational Innovation; Organizational Size; Structural Complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001036918     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.42.5.693     Document Type: Article

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