Community engineering for innovations: The ideas competition as a method to nurture a virtual community for innovations

R and D Management

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 342-356

  Ebner, Winfried ^a   Leimeister, Jan Marco ^b   Krcmar, Helmut ^c  

^a DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 68849125430     PISSN: 00336807     EISSN: 14679310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9310.2009.00564.x     Document Type: Article

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