Qualitative case study research. The case of a PhD research project on organising and managing new product development systems

Management Decision

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 513-538

  de Weerd Nederhof, Petra C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Case studies; Data collection; New product development; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986019288     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005805     Document Type: Article

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