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12 - Changes in Organizational Culture, Changes in Adaptive Capacity?

Examples from the Norwegian and Swedish Electricity Sectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

Karen O'Brien
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Universitetet i Oslo
Elin Selboe
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
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