Individual choice or institutional practice: Which guides the technology transfer decision-making process?

Management Decision

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1261-1281

  Tello, Steven ^a   Latham, Scott ^a   Kijewski, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Group dynamics; Information officers; Organizations; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956409310     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741011076780     Document Type: Article

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