The core and cosmopolitans: A relational view of innovation in user communities

Organization Science

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 988-1007

  Dahlander, Linus ^a   Frederiksen, Lars ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Communities; Innovation; Network; Online; Users

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867059500     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0673     Document Type: Article

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