Managing for innovation: Insights into a successful company

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6-17

  Crespell, By Pablo ^a   Hansen, Eric ^b  

^a FPINNOVATIONS   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNOVATIVENESS; ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS; PRIMARY OBJECTIVES; QUALITATIVE DATUM; QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS; QUANTITATIVE; SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS; THEORETICAL MODELS; WORK-FORCE;

CABLE STAYED BRIDGES; COMPETITION; JOB SATISFACTION; SURVEYS; TURBULENT FLOW; WOOD;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CABLES; COMPETITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURVEYS; TURBULENT FLOW; WOOD;

EID: 54949092387     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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