Small businesses in the new creative industries: Innovation as a people management challenge

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-54

  Hotho, Sabine ^a   Champion, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change management; Innovation; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751624226     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111094428     Document Type: Article

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