Wise Choices: How Thoroughness of Opportunity Appraisal, Incentives, and Performance Evaluation Fit Together

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 484-494

  Linder, Stefan ^a   Lyngsie, Jacob ^b   Foss, Nicolai J ^a,c,d   Zahra, Shaker A ^e  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^c NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrapreneurship; new business; opportunity appraisal; performance evaluation; project evaluations; reward systems

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES; SCARCE RESOURCES;

EID: 84960246074     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2015.2453334     Document Type: Article

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