@article {819,
	title = {The Role of Managers as Agents in Successful Service Innovations: Evidence from India},
	journal = {Technology Innovation Management Review},
	volume = {4},
	year = {2014},
	month = {08/2014},
	pages = {18-26},
	publisher = {Talent First Network},
	address = {Ottawa},
	abstract = {The article is based on a three-year study of 70 business executives belonging to 20 large organizations operating in India to identify the kind of interventions used by agents (managers) to make service innovations successful. For the purpose of analysis, the subject organizations were classified into highly successful, successful, and unsuccessful organizations on the basis of their growth rate, and their practices were analyzed to identify the role of agents in those processes or related decisions. The article also compares the practices followed by organizations based in India with global organizations operating in India to understand the contextual issues of service innovations.},
	keywords = {agents, entrepreneurship, global organizations, India, intrapreneurship, managers, service innovation},
	issn = {1927-0321},
	doi = {http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/819},
	url = {http://timreview.ca/article/819},
	author = {Shiv S. Tripathi}
}
