Construction and triangulation: Weaponry for attempts to create and test theory

Management Decision

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 556-563

  Kekäle, Tauno ^a  

^a TECHNOBOTHNIA Research Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

Organizational culture; Research; Theory; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986031639     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005802     Document Type: Article

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