TO CHANGE OR NOT TO CHANGE: HOW MOTOR CARRIERS RESPONDED FOLLOWING 9/11

Journal of Business Logistics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-155

  Atwater, Craig ^a   Gopalan, Ram ^a   Lancioni, Richard ^a   Hunt, James ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

9 11; Motor carriers; Strategic change; Strategic surprise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055221231     PISSN: 07353766     EISSN: 21581592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2158-1592.2010.tb00145.x     Document Type: Article

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