Organisation structure and innovation performance in different environments

Small Business Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 301-317

  Cosh, Andy ^a   Fu, Xiaolan ^b   Hughes, Alan ^c  

^a QUEENS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formality; Innovation; Management practices; Organisation structure; Small and medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863107494     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-010-9304-5     Document Type: Article

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