Aligning critical success factors to organizational design: A study of Swedish textile and clothing firms

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 403-436

  Pal, Rudrajeet ^a,b   Torstensson, Håkan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Critical success factors; Organizational design; Sweden; Textile industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959215913     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637151111136351     Document Type: Article

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