Innovation Strategy, Human Resource Policy, and Firms' Revenue Growth: The Roles of Environmental Uncertainty and Innovation Performance

Decision Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 273-302

  Oke, Adegoke ^a   Walumbwa, Fred O ^a   Myers, Andrew ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AJM Associates   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

and Innovation Strategy; Business Performance; Human Resource Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859489998     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2011.00350.x     Document Type: Article

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