Innovation routines: Exploring the role of procedures and stable behaviour patterns in innovation

Organizational Routines: Advancing Empirical Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 223-247

  Becker, Markus C ^a   Zirpoli, Francesco ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

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