Organizational forgetting as strategy

Strategic Organization

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 423-433

  Holan, Pablo Martin ^a   Phillips, Nelson ^b  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84993783237     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127004047620     Document Type: Editorial

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