Qualitative approaches for studying innovation as process

The Routledge Companion to Qualitative Research in Organization Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 226-247

  Garud, Raghu ^a   Berends, Hans ^b   Tuertscher, Philipp ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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