Innovativeness in the global forest products industry: Exploring new insights

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1324-1335

  Hansen, Eric ^a   Juslin, Heikki ^b   Knowles, Chris ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; MARKETING;

INDUSTRY MANAGERS; INDUSTRY SECTORS; INNOVATIVE COMPANY; QUALITATIVE WORKS;

FORESTRY;

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK;

FORESTRY; INNOVATION; MARKETING;

EID: 36148984961     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-323     Document Type: Article

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