The source of innovation: Boundary spanner

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1133-1145

  Hsu, Sheng Hsun ^a   Wang, Yu Che ^a   Tzeng, Shiou Fen ^b  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Boundary spanners; PLS; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749090551     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360701596274     Document Type: Article

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