The inconvenient truth of the relationship between open innovation activities and innovation performance

Management Decision

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 625-647

  Cheng, Colin C J ^a   Shiu, Eric C ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge learning; Open innovation activities; Organizational capabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927794544     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MD-03-2014-0163     Document Type: Article

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