Ambidexterity and Unit Performance: Intellectual Capital Antecedents and Cross-Level Moderating Effects of Human Resource Practices

Human Resource Management

Volumn 54, Issue , 2015, Pages s111-s132

  Kostopoulos, Konstantinos C ^a   Bozionelos, Nikos ^b   Syrigos, Evangelos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b AUDENCIA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ambidexterity; High performance HR practices; Intellectual capital; Multilevel analysis; Organizational learning; Unit performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952718413     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21705     Document Type: Article

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