The performance impact of intra-firm organizational design on an alliance's NPD projects

Research Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1350-1364

  Badir, Yuosre F ^a   Büchel, Bettina ^b   Tucci, Christopher L ^c  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b IMD   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Communication; Inter firm network; Media richness; New product development; Organizational design

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL DATA; INTENSITY LEVELS; INTER-FIRM NETWORK; INTER-ORGANIZATION; MEDIA RICHNESS; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; NPD PROJECTS; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGNS; PERFORMANCE IMPACT; STRATEGIC ALLIANCE;

COMMUNICATION; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 69249222531     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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