The foundations of Henri Fayol's administrative theory

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 906-918

  Wren, Daniel A ^a   Bedeian, Arthur G ^b   Breeze, John D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Independent Scholar and Business Owner Manager   (Canada)

Author keywords

History; Management theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 26944456219     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210441108     Document Type: Article

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