Crisis management or crisis response system?: A complexity science approach to organizational crises

Management Decision

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 892-907

  Paraskevas, Alexandros ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chaos theory; Hotel and catering industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746778772     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740610680587     Document Type: Article

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