Determinants and effects of employee’s creative self-efficacy on innovative activities

International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 326-347

  Slåtten, Terje ^a  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Creative self efficacy; Innovative activities; Job autonomy; Leadership; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927617640     PISSN: 1756669X     EISSN: 17566703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJQSS-03-2013-0013     Document Type: Article

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