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Organisational Dialogue
Team Performance Management: An International Journal
The “silo virus”: diagnosing and curing departmental groupthink
Peter Schütz Brian Bloch

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Peter Schütz Brian Bloch, (2006),"The “silo#virus”: diagnosing and curing departmental groupthink", Team
Performance Management: An International Journal, Vol. 12 Iss 1/2 pp. 31 - 43
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