When good conflict gets better and bad conflict becomes worse: The role of social capital in the conflict-innovation relationship

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 283-297

  de Clercq, Dirk ^a   Thongpapanl, Narongsak ^a   Dimov, Dimo ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Cross functional collaboration; Innovation; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350708655     PISSN: 00920703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11747-008-0122-0     Document Type: Article

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