Managerial Innovation: Conceptions, Processes, and Antecedents

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 423-454

  Damanpour, Fariborz ^a   Aravind, Deepa ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative innovation; Innovation process; Innovation type; Management innovation; Organizational innovation; Performance consequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863463754     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2011.00233.x     Document Type: Article

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