Organizational determinants of innovation capacity in software companies

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 373-385

  Koc, Tufan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Innovation capacity; Organizational factors; SME; Software companies

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INNOVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION IMPACTED; IDEA GENERATION; ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34648816958     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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