Managerial cognition and the mimetic adoption of market positions: What you see is what you do

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 967-988

  Greve, Henrich R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Managerial cognition; Market position; Radio broadcasting; Strategic group

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001189914     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199810)19:10<967::AID-SMJ981>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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