Empowerment of employees in small and mediumsized service firms

Employee Relations

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 105-127

  Sundbo, Jon ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Competences; Entrepreneuralism; Human resource management; Innovation; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986145978     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425459910266385     Document Type: Article

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