The evolutionary organization: Avoiding a Titanic fate

The Learning Organization

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 4-21

  Smith, Peter A c ^a   Saint Onge, Hubert ^b  

^a Leadership Alliance Inc   (Canada)

^b Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce   (Canada)

Author keywords

Management styles; Organizational change; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986166777     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696479610148109     Document Type: Article

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