A cross-level perspective on employee creativity: Goal orientation, team learning behavior, and individual creativity

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 280-293

  Hirst, Giles ^a   Van Knippenberg, Daan ^b   Zhou, Jing ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 65249112279     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2009.37308035     Document Type: Article

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