The challenges of collaborative knowledge creation in open innovation teams

Human Resource Development Review

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 350-381

  Chatenier, Elise Du ^a   Verstegen, Jos A A M ^a   Biemans, Harm J A ^a   Mulder, Martin ^a   Omta, Onno ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Challenges; Collaborative knowledge creation; Collaborative learning; Interorganizational learning; Open innovation team; Team learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350540668     PISSN: 15344843     EISSN: 15526712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534484309338265     Document Type: Article

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