In the Death Zone: A study of limits in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster

Human Relations

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1039-1063

  Tempest, Sue ^a   Starkey, Ken ^a,b   Ennew, Christine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Management and Organizational Learning ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Leadership; Learning; Liminality; Limits; Management; Organizational theory; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547397918     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726707081157     Document Type: Review

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