Strategic evolution in highly complex realities: Corporate level strategy in the situation of a merger

Management

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-21

  Sachs, Sybille ^a   Rühli, Edwin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute for Research in Business Administration   (Japan)

^c The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

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EID: 0010198707     PISSN: 12864892     EISSN: 12864692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/mana.041.0001     Document Type: Review

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