The mediating effect of team-level knowledge creation on organizational procedural justice and team performance improvement

Performance Improvement Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 43-64

  Kang, Ingu ^a   Hoon Song, Ji ^b   Kim, Woocheol ^a  

^a Oklahoma State University ^*  (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84863736057     PISSN: 08985952     EISSN: 19378327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/piq.21117     Document Type: Article

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