High-involvement work practices and environmental capabilities: How HIWPS create environmentally based sustainable competitive advantages

Human Resource Management

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 827-850

  Martínez del Río, Javier ^a   Céspedes Lorente, José ^a   Carmona Moreno, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental proactivity; Firm performance; High involvement work practices; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871563499     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21505     Document Type: Article

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