Gender diversity within R & D teams: Its impact on radicalness of innovation

Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 149-160

  Díaz García, Cristina ^a   González Moreno, Angela ^a   Sáez Martínez, Francisco Jose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gender diversity; Incremental; Innovation; R D teams; Radical; Task context

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892633334     PISSN: 14479338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/impp.2013.15.2.149     Document Type: Article

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