The power line: A model for generating a systemic focus on organizational health

Sociological Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 77-88

  Schuyler, Kathryn Goldman ^a   Branagan, Linda ^a  

^a ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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