Using a company brainstorm for employee-driven innovation: A case study

Design Principles and Practices

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 347-353

  Onarheim, Balder ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Case study; Cross departmental collaboration; Cross departmental innovation; Cross disciplinary; Employee participation; Employee driven innovation; Employee involvement; Engineering design; Innovation; Interdisciplinary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891363299     PISSN: 18331874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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