Organizational Success and Failure: An Empirical Test of a Holistic Model

European Management Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 488-498

  Flamholtz, Eric G ^a,b   Aksehirli, Zeynep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial Performance; Management Theory; Organizational Success

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001090432     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-2373(00)00038-4     Document Type: Article

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