Bearing 'the burden and heat of the day': The experience of business failure in Douglas & Grant Ltd.

Business History

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 689-712

  Mackie, Robin ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'collective subjectivity'; 'orchestration'; business culture; business failure; firm ownership; knowledge sharing; management; succession; the firm as team

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84865157271     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2012.683418     Document Type: Article

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