Cross-functional patent management in family firms

Journal of Business Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 181-203

  Jell, Florian ^a   Block, Joern H ^b,c   Henkel, Joachim ^a   Spiegel, Frank ^a   Zischka, Hans ^a  

^a TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross functional management; Family firms; Innovation; Patent management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84999872556     PISSN: 00442372     EISSN: 18618928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11573-014-0732-6     Document Type: Article

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