Market-facing innovation networks: How lead firms partition tasks, share resources and develop capabilities

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1224-1237

  Perks, Helen ^a   Moxey, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capabilities; Innovation; Lead firm; Networks; Resources; Tasks

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955187702     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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