Organizational innovativeness: Exploring the relationship between organizational determinants of innovation, types of innovations, and measures of organizational performance

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Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 631-647

  Subramanian, Ashok ^a,c   Nilakanta, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation; Management; Management of innovation; Measurement; Methodology; Organizational studies

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; INNOVATION TYPES; INNOVATIVENESS; MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANISATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATIVENESS; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES;

EID: 0030529141     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(96)00031-X     Document Type: Article

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