How does organizational learning matter in strategic business performance? The contingency role of guanxi networking

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1216-1224

  Chung, Henry F L ^a   Yang, Zhilin ^b   Huang, Pei How ^c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business and political guanxi; China; Explorative and exploitative learning; Oorganizational learning; Strategic business performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926152727     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.11.016     Document Type: Article

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