Organizational learning from extreme performance experience: The impact of success and recovery experience

Organization Science

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 958-978

  Kim, June Young ^a   Kim, Ji Yub Jay ^b   Miner, Anne S ^c  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme performance experience; Learning from failure; Organizational learning; Success and recovery experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049094487     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0439     Document Type: Article

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