Top management team diversity and strategic innovation orientation: The relationship and consequences for innovativeness and performance

Journal of Product Innovation Management

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 819-832

  Talke, Katrin ^a   Salomo, Søren ^b   Kock, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKETS; CUSTOMER NEED; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; FIRM PERFORMANCE; INNOVATION STRATEGY; INNOVATIVENESS; LITTLE RESEARCH; PORTFOLIO OF NEW PRODUCTS; POSITIVE EFFECTS; STRATEGIC ORIENTATION; SURVEY DATA; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION; TOP MANAGEMENT; TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 80053940171     PISSN: 07376782     EISSN: 15405885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5885.2011.00851.x     Document Type: Article

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