Reexamining some management lessons from military history

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 617-642

  Ahlstrom, David ^a   Lamond, David ^b   Ding, Zhujun ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

History; Interwar period; Military; Organizational learning; World War I

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350709795     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-009-9155-2     Document Type: Article

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