"Unsafe" business acts and outcomes: A management lexicon

Business Horizons

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 41-49

  Cooksey, Ray W ^a   Richard Gates, G ^a   Pollock, Hilary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b NONE

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EID: 0040684083     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0007-6813(98)90007-6     Document Type: Article

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