Organizational process as antecedent of managerial flexibility

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-15

  Bamel, Umesh Kumar ^a   Rangnekar, Santosh ^a   Rastogi, Renu ^a   Kumar, Suman ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Collaborative decision making; Communication; Creativity; Managerial flexibility; Organizational process; Performance management system (PMS); Teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887413748     PISSN: 09722696     EISSN: 09740198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40171-013-0026-9     Document Type: Article

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