Size, R&D productivity and Decision Styles

Small Business Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 643-662

  Lejarraga, José ^a   Martinez Ros, Ester ^b  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b UNU MERIT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision making; Firm size; Licensing; Mediation; Product innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893925502     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-013-9495-7     Document Type: Article

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