Productivity innovation as a social movement: The case of Singapore

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 720-742

  Foo, Check Teck ^a   Hall, Kenneth ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Innovation; MBO; Productivity; Size; Social movement; Supervisors; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042925468     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095851997341487     Document Type: Article

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