The devil lies in details! How crises build up within organizations

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-11

  Roux Dufort, Christophe ^a  

^a EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; VULNERABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 66749141753     PISSN: 09660879     EISSN: 14685973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2009.00563.x     Document Type: Article

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