Workplace innovations and employee outcomes: Evidence from Finland

Industrial Relations

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 430-459

  Kalmi, Panu ^a   Kauhanen, Antti ^b  

^a ACADEMY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Elinkeinoelaman Tutkimuslaitos   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; INNOVATION; LABOR MARKET; WORKPLACE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 44349138251     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00528.x     Document Type: Article

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