On the value of management history: Absorbing the past to understand the present and inform the future

Management Decision

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1273-1281

  Lamond, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Management history; Management theory; Working practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 28944433595     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740510634859     Document Type: Article

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