Human resource practices, organizational learning and business performance

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 147-164

  Perez Lopez, Susana ^a,b   Montes Peon, Jose Manuel ^a,b   Vazquez Ordas, Camilo Jose ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Económicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Business performance; High performance human resource practices; Organizational learning; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992898308     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13678860500100103     Document Type: Review

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