Using an online community for vehicle design: Project variety and motivations to participate

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 635-653

  Seidel, Victor P ^a,b   Langner, Benedikt ^c  

^a BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bain and Company   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE; CORPORATE STRATEGY; DESIGN; INTERNET; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84930825976     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtv016     Document Type: Article

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