Re-examining 'flexibility'

The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 253-264

  Mir, Ali ^a   Mir, Raza ^a  

^a WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203550274     Document Type: Chapter

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