A Path Forward: Assessing Progress and Exploring Core Questions for the Future of Positive Organizational Scholarship

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Spreitzer, Gretchen M ^a   Cameron, Kim S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Generative; Mechanisms; Positive

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EID: 84924984902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0079     Document Type: Chapter

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