Underwriting corporate resilience via creativity: The pliability model

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 24, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 835-846

  Marwa, Simmy M ^a   Milner, Christopher D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

continuum; creativity; excellence; hard; pliability; resilience; soft

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880037707     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783363.2013.791110     Document Type: Article

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