Introduction: Temporary organizations - A challenge and opportunity for our thinking about organizations

Temporary Organizations: Prevalence, Logic and Effectiveness

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-12

  Janowicz Panjaitan, Martyna ^a   Cambré, Bart ^a   Kenis, Patrick ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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