A multilevel growth assessment of the diffusion of management innovation nested in state levels: The case of US local economic development programs

Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-19

  Hsieh, Jun Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Local economic development programs; Management innovation; Multilevel growth model; Policy diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955006746     PISSN: 14479338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/impp.2011.13.1.2     Document Type: Article

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