Organizational innovations, human resources and firm performance: The Emilia-Romagna food sector

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 123-141

  Mazzanti, Massimiliano ^a   Pini, Paolo ^a   Tortia, Ermanno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Firm performance; High performance practices; Human resource management; Industrial relations; Organizational innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 32144437064     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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