Organizational learning culture, innovative culture and innovations in South Korean firms

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 6390-6403

  Škerlavaj, Miha ^a   Song, Ji Hoon ^b   Lee, Youngmin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sookmyung Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Competing values framework; Innovation; Innovative culture; Organizational learning culture; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

COMPETING VALUES FRAMEWORKS; INFORMATION ACQUISITIONS; INFORMATION INTERPRETATION; INNOVATIVE CULTURES; INNOVATIVENESS; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; PRODUCT AND SERVICES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78751604148     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.02.080     Document Type: Article

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