Managerial ties and firm innovation: Is knowledge creation a missing link?

Journal of Product Innovation Management

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-143

  Shu, Chengli ^b   Page, Albert L ^a   Gao, Shanxing ^b   Jiang, Xu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT PROCESS; DIRECT IMPACT; DIRECT MECHANISM; EMPIRICAL DATA; EXTERNAL RESOURCES; FIRM INNOVATION; FIRM PERFORMANCE; KNOWLEDGE ASSETS; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS; PERSONAL NETWORKS; PROCESS INNOVATION; PRODUCT INNOVATION; SENIOR MANAGERS; SOCIAL NETWORK THEORY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING TECHNIQUES; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES;

INDUSTRY; INNOVATION;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 81555207203     PISSN: 07376782     EISSN: 15405885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5885.2011.00883.x     Document Type: Article

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