Financial constraints in innovation projects: When is less more?

Research Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1382-1391

  Hoegl, Martin ^a   Gibbert, Michael ^b   Mazursky, David ^c  

^a WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Innovation; Resource constraints; Team

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS; INNOVATION; INNOVATION PROJECTS; PROJECT PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS; TEAM; TEAM PROCESS; TEAM PROJECTS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 48949097380     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2008.04.018     Document Type: Article

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