Learning from error: The influence of error incident characteristics

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-122

  Homsma, Gert J ^a   Van Dyck, Cathy ^a   De Gilder, Dick ^a   Koopman, Paul L ^a   Elfring, Tom ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Organization Science   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication about errors; Error consequences; Learning from error

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249110180     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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