What motivates knowledge workers to involve themselves in employee innovation behaviour?

International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 160-177

  Åmo, Bjørn Willy ^a  

^a UK and Bodø Graduate School of Business   (Norway)

Author keywords

corporate entrepreneurship; employee innovation behaviour; innovation incentives; intellectual capital; intrapreneurship; intrinsic motivation; organisational enhancement; personal intellectual capital; visible corporate strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349030271     PISSN: 17438268     EISSN: 17438276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijkms.2006.008851     Document Type: Article

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