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- 1 2 http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/research/joanwoodwardmemoriallectures The Joan Woodward Memorial Lectures, Imperial College Business School
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0198741227 Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice - Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (February 19, 1981); ISBN 0-19-874122-7, ISBN 978-0-19-874122-0
- 1 2 http://www.imperial.ac.uk/centenary/memories/DotGriffiths.shtml Professor Dot Griffiths shares her memories of Professor Joan Woodward, as part of the Imperial College Centenary
- ↑ Nelson X. Phillips; Dorothy Griffiths; Graham Sewell, eds. (2010). Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward. Emerald Group Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84950-985-5.
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