Effect of organizational factors on employees’ generation of innovative ideas: Empirical study on the Egyptian software development industry

EuroMed Journal of Business

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 134-146

  Aziz, Hadia Hamdy Abdel ^a   Rizkallah, Ashraf ^b  

^a GERMAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

^b Link Development ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egypt; Idea generation; Innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930850593     PISSN: 14502194     EISSN: 1758888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EMJB-12-2014-0044     Document Type: Article

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