The role of lead users in knowledge sharing

Research Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1582-1589

  Jeppesen, Lars Bo ^a   Laursen, Keld ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing; Lead users; Online community

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL SOURCES; INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; LEAD USERS; LOW COSTS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE COMMUNITY;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350591053     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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