Short-term economic incentives in new product development

Research Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1397-1420

  Davila, Antonio ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation; Incentives; Measures; Product development

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ECONOMIC INCENTIVES;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0042631439     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(02)00138-5     Document Type: Article

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