Learning to plan and planning to learn: Resolving the planning school/learning school debate

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 889-913

  Brews, Peter J ^a   Hunt, Michelle R ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental stability; Firm performance; Formal strategic planning; Logical incrementalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001504013     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199910)20:10<889::AID-SMJ60>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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