Stressful situations? The case of management buyout/buyins

Management Decision

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 641-648

  Baruch, Yehuda ^a   Woodward, Sally ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coping; Management buy outs; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986052370     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251749810245282     Document Type: Article

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