Distributed Attention and Shared Emotions in the Innovation Process: How Nokia Lost the Smartphone Battle

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 9-51

  Vuori, Timo O ^a   Huy, Quy N ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b INSEAD   (Singapore)

Author keywords

attention based view of the firm; cognition; innovation process; shared emotion; smartphone; temporal myopia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956510327     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839215606951     Document Type: Article

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