The impact of job embeddedness on innovation-related behaviors

Human Resource Management

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1067-1087

  Ng, Thomas W H ^a   Feldman, Daniel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Career stage; Innovation; Job embeddedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649600714     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20390     Document Type: Article

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