Open innovation in the food and beverage industry

Management Decision

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 526-546

  Bayona Saez, Cristina ^a   Cruz Cázares, Claudio ^b   García Marco, Teresa ^a   Sánchez García, Mercedes ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Food and beverage firms; Innovation performance; Low tech industry; Open innovation; Process innovations; Product innovations; Radical innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016787344     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MD-04-2016-0213     Document Type: Article

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