What happened is prologue: creative divergence and corporate culture fabrication

Management Decision

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 410-419

  Mclarney, Carolan ^a   Chung, Edward ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST NORBERT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate culture; Decision making; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986064533     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740010373098     Document Type: Article

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