Narrating the management guru: In search of Tom Peters

Narrating the Management Guru: In Search of Tom Peters

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-168

  Collins, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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