Transferring knowledge from universities to organizations by business students Findings from a developing country

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 199-215

  Raza, Syed Ali ^a   Najmi, Arsalan ^a   Shah, Nida ^a  

^a IQRA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Business students; In service employed students; Knowledge transfer; PLS SEM; University organization linkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 85138032763     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JWL-06-2016-0054     Document Type: Article

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