Communications Patterns of New Product Development Team Leaders

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 101-109

  Barczak, Gloria ^a   Wilemon, David ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

communication patterns; New product development teams; project leadership

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT--RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION;

BOUNDARY SPANNER; COMMUNICATION PATTERNS; INNOVATION; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; PROJECT LEADERSHIP;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 0026154065     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: 15580040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.78406     Document Type: Article

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