The grounding of the "flying bank"

Management Decision

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1048-1062

  Hermann, Aaron ^a   Rammal, Hussain G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airlines; Boards of directors; Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955059170     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741011068761     Document Type: Article

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