Rising from failure and learning from success: The role of past experience in radical initiative taking

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 670-690

  Deichmann, Dirk ^a,b   van den Ende, Jan ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Idea management; Initiative taking; Innovation; Learning; Radical ideas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901344010     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0870     Document Type: Article

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