Knowledge management and innovation strategy in the Asia Pacific: Toward an institution-based view

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 361-374

  Lu, Yuan ^a   Tsang, Eric W K ^b   Peng, Mike W ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation; Institution based view; Knowledge management; Legitimacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249115311     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-008-9100-9     Document Type: Review

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70. David Ahlstrom (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
71. Rabi Bhagat (University of Memphis)
72. Tony Fang (Stockholm University)
73. Loizos Heracleous (University of Oxford)
74. Jack Hong (University of Macau)
75. Andrew Inkpen (Thunderbird)
76. Jay Janney (University of Dayton)
77. Dominique Jolly (CERAM Sophia Antipolis)
78. Theodore Khoury (University of Texas at Dallas)
79. Mingfang Li (California State University, Northridge)
80. Livia Markoczy (University of Texas at Dallas)
81. John Mathews (Macquarie University)
82. Klaus Meyer (University of Bath)
83. Snejina Michailova (University of Auckland)
84. William Newburry (Florida International University)
85. Thang Nguyen (University of Macau)
86. Chunyan Peng (Lingnan University)
87. Joan Penner-Hahn (Wayne State University)
88. Gongming Qian (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
89. Bing Ren (Nankai University)
90. Yizheng Shi (Hong Kong Baptist University)
91. Katsuhiko Shimizu (University of Texas at San Antonio)
92. Jennifer Spencer (George Washington University)
93. Yu-Shan Su (Chang Jung Christian University)
94. Sunny Li Sun (University of Texas at Dallas)
95. Bing-Sheng Teng (George Washington University)
96. Liqun Wei (Hong Kong Baptist University)
97. Wei Xie (Tsinghua University)
98. Xiaohua Yang (Queensland University of Technology)
99. Joseph Chwo-Ming Yu (National Chengchi University)
100. Shujun Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou)
101. Xiande Zhao (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
102. Jessie Qi Zhou (Southern Methodist University)
103. Lianxi Zhou (Lingnan University)