Organizing continuous product development and commercialization: The collaborative community of firms model

Journal of Product Innovation Management

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-16

  Snow, Charles C ^a   Fjeldstad, Øystein D ^b   Lettl, Christopher ^c   Miles, Raymond E ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; COORDINATION REACTIONS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY; CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT; DYNAMIC COORDINATION; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS; INNOVATION MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGNS; ORGANIZATIONAL MODELING;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78650365350     PISSN: 07376782     EISSN: 15405885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5885.2010.00777.x     Document Type: Article

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