The client role in consultancy relations during the appropriation of technological innovations

Research Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 657-671

  Hislop, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clients; Consultants; Embeddedness; Innovation

Indexed keywords

CLIENT BEHAVIOUR; CLIENTS; CONSULTANTS; EMBEDDEDNESS; INNOVATION PROCESS; ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION;

INNOVATION; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

PLASTICS MOLDING;

EID: 31244431727     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(01)00135-4     Document Type: Article

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