The mini-company: A specification of sociotechnical business systems

Personnel Review

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 338-355

  De Leede, Jan ^a   Looise, Jan Kees ^a   Verkerk, Maarten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Market orientation; Sociotechnics; Systems development; Teams; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035998671     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480210422741     Document Type: Article

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