Can principles from Sun Tzu's Art of War be used to address the problems of consensus-seeking organizations?

Corporate Communications: An International Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 208-212

  Sai on ko, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Group thinking; Organizational philosophy; Quality function deployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986067685     PISSN: 13563289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13563280310487667     Document Type: Review

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