Innovation speed and radicalness: Are they inversely related?

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 533-547

  Goktan, A Banu ^a   Miles, Grant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Innovation; Product life cycle; Production cycle; World economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955649672     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111126477     Document Type: Article

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