The interplay of decentralization, employee involvement and absorptive capacity on firms’ innovation and business performance

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 120, Issue , 2017, Pages 195-203

  Rangus, Kaja ^a   Slavec, Alenka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Decentralization; Employee involvement; Innovation

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; BUSINESS PERFORMANCE; DECENTRALIZATION; EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT; INNOVATION PERFORMANCE; OPEN INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SERVICE FIRMS;

INNOVATION;

BUSINESS; DECENTRALIZATION; INNOVATION; MANUFACTURING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SERVICE SECTOR;

EID: 85009813237     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.12.017     Document Type: Article

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