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Case Study Approaches

from Part II - Empirical Approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Patricia H. Werhane
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DePaul University, Chicago
R. Edward Freeman
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University of Virginia
Sergiy Dmytriyev
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University of Virginia
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