Managing transitions: The reorganization of two clothing manufacturing firms in Hungary

Organization Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 721-740

  Taplin, Ian M ^a   Frege, Carola M ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clothing industry; Institutional transformation; Organizational learning; Restructuring; Work intensification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040443067     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840699205002     Document Type: Article

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