Organizational learning: Perception of external environment and innovation performance

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 512-536

  Wang, Yu Lin ^a   Ellinger, Andrea D ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Human resource management; Individual development; Information dissemination; Innovation; Organizational learning; Organizational performance; Workplace training

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053081004     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437721111158189     Document Type: Article

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