Innovations in a relational context: Mechanisms to connect learning processes of absorptive capacity

Management Learning

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-438

  Knoppen, Desirée ^a   Sáenz, Maria J ^a   Johnston, David A ^b  

^a MIT Zaragoza International Logistics Program   (Spain)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

absorptive capacity; innovation; learning mechanism; relational context

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052311975     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507610389684     Document Type: Article

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