Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen: Innovative Capacity, Collaborative Network Orientation, and Performance in Small Family Businesses

Family Business Review

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-50

  Spriggs, Mark ^a   Yu, Andy ^b   Deeds, David ^a   Sorenson, Ritch L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

collaboration; configuration; family business; innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875312423     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486512468600     Document Type: Article

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