Organizational emotional memory

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-114

  Akgün, Ali E ^a   Keskin, Halit ^a   Byrne, John ^b  

^a GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Declarative memory; Emotional memory; Memory; Organizational memory; Organizations; Procedural memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856180443     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211194895     Document Type: Review

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