Efficiency and Power: Organizational Economics Meets Organization Theory

British Journal of Management

Volumn 8, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 1997, Pages

  Rowlinson, Michael ^a   Procter, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031507767     PISSN: 10453172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.8.s1.4     Document Type: Article

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