Personality and emergency command ability

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 40-46

  Flin, Rhona ^a   Slaven, Georgina ^a  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84986161388     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653569610109550     Document Type: Article

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