With a little help from our colleagues: A longitudinal study of social networks for innovation

Organization Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 451-479

  Kijkuit, Bob ^a,b   van den Ende, Jan ^c  

^a NAM BV   (Netherlands)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Creativity; Front end; New product development; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953144450     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609357398     Document Type: Article

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