The impacts of network competence, knowledge sharing on service innovation performance: Moderating role of relationship quality

Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management

Volumn 6, Issue 1 LISS 2012, 2013, Pages 25-48

  Jian, Zhaoquan ^a   Wang, Chen ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Knowledge sharing (KS); Network competence (NC); Relationship quality (RQ); Service innovation performance (SIP)

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; RELATIONSHIP QUALITIES; SERVICE INNOVATION;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84875537629     PISSN: 20138423     EISSN: 20130953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3926/jiem.659     Document Type: Article

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