Improvisation in product innovation: The contingent role of market information sources and memory types

Organization Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1051-1078

  Kyriakopoulos, Kyriakos ^a  

^a The American College of Greece   (Greece)

Author keywords

improvisation; market information flows; memory; product innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052253275     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611410833     Document Type: Article

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