Technological and design capabilities: Is ambidexterity possible?

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 208-225

  Ho, Yung Ching ^a   Fang, Hui Chen ^a   Lin, Jing Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Design; Research and development

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952351260     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111109124     Document Type: Article

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