Proactive Environmental Strategies and Employee Inclusion: The Positive Effects of Information Sharing and Promoting Collaboration and the Influence of Uncertainty

Organization and Environment

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 139-161

  Aragón Correa, J Alberto ^a   Martín Tapia, Inmaculada ^a   Hurtado Torres, Nuria Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

collaboration among employees; employee participation and involvement; human resource practices; information sharing; pharmaceutical industry; proactive environmental strategy; resource based view

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; HUMAN RESOURCE; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; LABOR PARTICIPATION; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878925343     PISSN: 10860266     EISSN: 15527417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1086026613489034     Document Type: Article

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