The impact of technological diversity and organizational slack on innovation

Technovation

Volumn 30, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 420-428

  Huang, Yi Fen ^a   Chen, Chung Jen ^b  

^a DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Innovation performance; Organizational slack; Technological diversity

Indexed keywords

FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; INNOVATION PERFORMANCE; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION; ORGANIZATIONAL SLACK; PANEL DATA; U-SHAPED;

EID: 77955309697     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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