Organizing for disaster: Lessons from the military

Business Horizons

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 479-489

  Weeks, Michael R ^a  

^a UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Military; Organizational structure; Planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148844806     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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