Falls from Grace and Lessons from Failure: Daewoo and Medison

Long Range Planning

Volumn 40, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 446-464

  Kim, Dong Jae ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION; STRATEGIC CONCEPTS;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

EID: 34548836586     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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