Innovation at and Across Multiple Levels of Analysis

Organization Science

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 885-897

  Gupta, Anil K ^a   Tesluk, Paul E ^a   Taylor, M Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Capabilities; Innovation; Institutional factors; Levels of analysis; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149296176     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0337     Document Type: Article

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