What Goes Around, Comes Around: Inventing a Mythology of Teamwork and Empowerment

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 70-89

  Sewell, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 84990375024     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886301371005     Document Type: Article

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