Organisational resilience: development of a conceptual framework for organisational responses
International Journal of Production ResearchPublished 8 April 2011Open access
Kevin Burnard, Ran Bhamra
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Closed access. This article was published in the International Journal of Production Research [© Taylor & Francis] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org10.1080/00207543.2011.563827
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