Employee-driven innovation: Extending the license to foster innovation

Management Decision

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-84

  Kesting, Peter ^a   Ulhøi, John Parm ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Decision making; Employees participation; Human capital; Innovation; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449115638     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741011014463     Document Type: Article

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