Destructive goal pursuit: The Mt. Everest disaster

Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-184

  Kayes, D Christopher ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230503472     Document Type: Book

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