Creating conditions to nourish sustainable organizational excellence

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 16, Issue 8-9, 2005, Pages 925-943

  Dervitsiotis, Kostas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coping with paradoxes; Emergent leadership interventions; Operation in stable vs. turbulent periods; Organizations as living systems; Power of language for transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844593384     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360500163078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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