The dynamics of motivation in new organizational forms

International Journal of the Economics of Business

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 61-77

  Osterloh, Margit ^a   Frost, Jetta ^a   Frey, Bruno S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Firm SPECIFIC Pool Resources; Knowledge Transfer; Motivation; Organizational Forms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748439340     PISSN: 13571516     EISSN: 14661829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13571510110102976     Document Type: Article

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