How organizations become enduring: Disentangling the organizational identity paradox

Self-Reinforcing Processes in and among Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 35-54

  Kirchner, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 85008597885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230392830     Document Type: Chapter

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