Organizational Ingenuity in Nascent Innovations: Gaining Resources and Legitimacy through Unconventional Actions

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 483-509

 

^a Priya)   (United States)

Author keywords

early stage innovations; legitimacy; managerial attention; material ingenuity; organizational ingenuity; process ingenuity; resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898682967     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613517596     Document Type: Article

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