Human aspect as a critical factor for organization sustainability in the tourism industry

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Ulus, Mehmet ^a   Hatipoglu, Burcin ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Change management; Collective case study; Human factors; Organisational sustainability; Tourism; Turkey

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMMUNICATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; SUSTAINABILITY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

TURKEY;

EID: 84961889778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8030232     Document Type: Article

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