Curating collections of ideas: Museum as metaphor in the management of creativity

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-112

  Litchfield, Robert C ^a   Gilson, Lucy L ^b  

^a WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Collection; Creativity; Curation; Idea generation; Museum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873570931     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2012.11.010     Document Type: Article

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