Operational restructuring: Reviving an ailing business

Management Decision

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 539-552

  Lin, Beixin ^a   Lee, Zu Hsu ^a   Gibbs, Lance G ^b  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Orange County AHRC   (United States)

Author keywords

Business failures; Earnings; Organizational restructuring; Recession

Indexed keywords

EID: 43149096283     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740810865049     Document Type: Article

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