The influence of industry downturns on the propensity of product versus process innovation

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 429-465

  Berchicci, Luca ^a   Tucci, Christopher L ^b   Zazzaray, Cristiano ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Riskmetrics Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; MANUFACTURING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTION SYSTEM;

ITALY;

EID: 84896468461     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtt011     Document Type: Article

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