No longer a stepchild: How the management field can come into its own

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1365-1378

  McGrath, Rita Gunther ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

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EID: 38949109648     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2007.28166144     Document Type: Article

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