Effect of inventor status on intra-organizational innovation evolution

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kaza, Siddharth ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^b  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL METHODS; KNOWLEDGE FLOWS; KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS; LARGE ORGANIZATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATIONS; RANDOM WALKS; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TEAM IDENTIFICATIONS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INNOVATION;

EID: 63349107468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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