Positive Emotions: Broadening and Building Upward Spirals of Sustainable Enterprise

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sekerka, Leslie E ^a   Vacharkulksemsuk, Tanya ^b   Fredrickson, Barbara L ^b  

^a Menlo College   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Broaden and build theory; Positive emotions; Strength based inquiry; Sustainable enterprise; Transformative cooperation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924970623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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