Project-based firms: New organizational form or variations on a theme?

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-99

  Whitley, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; INVESTMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

EID: 33645153868     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtj003     Document Type: Article

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