Motivating technical visionaries in large american companies

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 433-444

  Hebda, John M ^a   Vojak, Bruce A ^a   Griffin, Abbie ^b,c   Price, Raymond L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Incentives; Innovation; Motivation; Technical visionaries

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY;

TECHNICAL PROFESSIONALS; TECHNICAL VISIONARIES; TECHNOLOGY-INTENSIVE ORGANIZATION;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34547893010     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2007.900791     Document Type: Article

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