Learning to become a high reliability organization in the food retail business

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 4499-4506

  Ciravegna, Luciano ^a,b   Brenes, Esteban R ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of New York   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Business strategy; Emerging market enterprises; High reliability organizations; Multinational enterprises; Retail

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964390963     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.03.015     Document Type: Article

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