Environmental determinants of open innovation in Dubai SMEs

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 60-68

  Pervan, Simon ^a   Al Ansaari, Yahya ^b   Xu, Jun ^c  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b HIGHER COLLEGES OF TECHNOLOGY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dubai; Emerging markets; Environmental determinants; Innovation; Small and medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952631159     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2015.05.029     Document Type: Article

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