Begging, borrowing, and building on ideas from the outside to create pulsed innovation inside teams

Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 183-198

  Ancona, Deborah ^a   Bresman, Henrik ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84904779425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410615732     Document Type: Chapter

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