A TISM Based Bionic Model of Organizational Excellence

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 361-376

  Agarwal, Alpana ^a   Vrat, Prem ^a  

^a THE NORTHCAP UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Analogy; Bio mimicry; Human body organization; Metaphor; Organizational excellence; TISM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948669482     PISSN: 09722696     EISSN: 09740198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40171-015-0107-z     Document Type: Article

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