Product innovations in emerging economies: The role of foreign knowledge access channels and internal efforts in Chinese firms

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 243-266

  Li, Jing ^a   Chen, Dong ^b   Shapiro, Daniel M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Clusters; Learning by exporting; Marketing; Product innovation; Research and development (R D)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954373701     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2009.00155.x     Document Type: Article

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