Sustainable development in an industrial enterprise: The case of Ontario Hydro

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 696-721

  Roome, Nigel John ^a   Bergin, Ronald ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Off of the Auditor Gen of Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Organizational change; Social change; Sustainable development; Transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750264938     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150610710882     Document Type: Article

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