Social competency and new product development performance

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 363-376

  Mu, Jifeng ^a   Zhang, Gengmiao ^b   MacLachlan, Douglas L ^c  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; market knowledge; new product development; social competency; technological competency

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; MARKET KNOWLEDGE; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL COMPETENCY; TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCY;

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 79955564511     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2010.2099231     Document Type: Article

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