COMPLEMENTS OR SUBSTITUTES ? : THE EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION ROUTINES AND

This paper analyzes the effects of the organizational communication routines and project team management practices on the capability to mobilize and create knowledge for innovation. I argue that for organizations that have the organizational communication routines that support innovation project team management practices that facilitate communication on team and innovation are at most complements. However, for organizations that lack these routines, the practices are substitutes for them. The empirical analysis supports the arguments. [75]

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