Democracy without empowerment: the grand vision and demise of Yugoslav selfmanagement

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 797-806

  Lynn, Monty L ^a   Mulej, Matjaz ^b   Jurse, Karin ^c  

^a ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c Office of Economics   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Eastern Europe; Empowerment; Teams; Workplace learning; Yugoslavia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986145998     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210437752     Document Type: Review

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