Highperformance companies: the distinguishing profile

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 227-231

  Osborne, Richard L ^a   Cowen, Scott S ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate culture; Employee attitudes; Management structure; Success

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986134484     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210420174     Document Type: Article

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