Leisure time invention

Organization Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1439-1458

  Davis, Lee N ^a   Davis, Jerome D ^b   Hoisl, Karin ^c  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inventiveness; Leisure time; Management; Organizational creativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885107988     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1120.0791     Document Type: Article

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