Advancing management innovation: Synthesizing processes, levels of analysis, and change agents

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1245-1264

  Volberda, Henk Wijtze ^a   Van Den Bosch, Frans A J ^a   Mihalache, Oli R ^b,c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adoption; Change agents; Diffusion; Generation; Management innovation; Multilevel; Process; Rational actor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924125665     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840614546155     Document Type: Article

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