Organisational innovability: Exploring the impact of human and social capital in the banking industry

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1088-1104

  Tseng, Jung Feng ^a   Wang, Hsing Kuo ^b   Yen, Yu Fang ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL QUEMOY UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Human capital quality; Innovation; Social capital; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878949887     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783363.2013.781294     Document Type: Article

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