What do transition organizations lack to be innovative?

Kybernetes

Volumn 35, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 972-992

  Bastic, Majda ^a   Leskovar Spacapan, Gabrijela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Cybernetics; Innovation; Transition management

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; CYBERNETICS; INNOVATION;

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SUSTAINED COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES; TRANSITION MANAGEMENT;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 33749409127     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920610675030     Document Type: Article

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