Organizational design drivers to enable emergent creativity in web-based communities

Learning Organization

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 337-351

  de Toni, Alberto F ^a   Biotto, Gianluca ^a   Battistella, Cinzia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Collective innovation; Complexity; Complexity theory; Creativity; Emergence; Innovation; Open innovation web based platforms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861326528     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696471211226699     Document Type: Article

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