Need for Cognition as an Antecedent of Individual Innovation Behavior

Journal of Management

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1511-1534

  Wu, Chia Huei ^a   Parker, Sharon K ^a   de Jong, Jeroen P J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

innovation; job design; personality; proactivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907079684     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206311429862     Document Type: Article

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