Creativity (Ideas) Management in Industrial R&D Organizations: A Crea-Political Process Model and an Empirical Illustration of Corus RD&T

Creativity and Innovation Management

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 296-309

  Bakker, Han ^a   Boersma, Kees ^b   Oreel, Sytse ^c  

^a Rotterdam Institute of Social Education (RISO)   (India)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Dutch steel company (SME)   (India)

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EID: 64249126964     PISSN: 09631690     EISSN: 14678691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8691.2006.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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