Human resource management and developing proactive environmental strategies: The influence of environmental training and organizational learning

Human Resource Management

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 905-934

  Vidal Salazar, María Dolores ^a   Cordón Pozo, Eulogio ^a   Ferrón Vilchez, Vera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental proactivity; Environmental training; Innovativeness; Organizational learning; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871573335     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21507     Document Type: Article

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