Linking HRM and knowledge transfer via individual-level mechanisms

Human Resource Management

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 387-405

  Minbaeva, Dana B ^a   Mäkelä, Kristiina ^b,c   Rabbiosi, Larissa ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

HRM; Interaction; Knowledge exchange; Motivation; Organizational commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861493117     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21478     Document Type: Article

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