Modernist architecture and scientific management: Owen williams, the boots 'wets' building and the importance of practice

Management and Organizational History

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 328-344

  Mutch, Alistair ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boots company; modernist architecture; Owen Williams; scientific management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960128621     PISSN: 17449359     EISSN: 17449367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744935911406189     Document Type: Article

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