Structuring organizational value statements

Management Research News

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 673-683

  Wenstop, Fred ^a   Myrmel, Arild ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Corporate communications; Corporate social responsibility; Corporate strategy; Management philosophy; Mission statements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986116771     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170610715990     Document Type: Article

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