Metatheories in Management Studies: Reflections Upon Individualism, Holism, and Systemism

Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 49-69

  Reihlen, Markus ^a   Klaas Wissing, Thorsten ^b   Ringberg, Torsten ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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EID: 47249094396     PISSN: 12864892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/mana.103.0049     Document Type: Article

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