Constraints as sources of radical innovation? insights from jet propulsion development

Management and Organizational History

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 385-399

  Gibbert, Michael ^a   Scranton, Philip ^b  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Constraints; Giddens; Innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350630337     PISSN: 17449359     EISSN: 17449367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744935909341781     Document Type: Article

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