Interpreting corporate transformation through failure

Management Decision

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 305-314

  Thorne, Marie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Company failures; Construction industry; Management development; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986077411     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740010340481     Document Type: Article

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