Technological strategy, open innovation and innovation performance: evidences on the basis of a structural-equation-model approach

Measuring Business Excellence

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 22-41

  Aloini, Davide ^a   Pellegrini, Luisa ^a   Lazzarotti, Valentina ^b   Manzini, Raffaella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Università Cattaneo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Innovation; Openness variety; Partner intensity; Performance; Phase intensity; SEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938813037     PISSN: 13683047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MBE-04-2015-0018     Document Type: Article

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