Factors affecting success in business: Management theories/tools versus predicting changes

European Management Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-20

  Makridakis, Spyros ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

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EID: 0030077714     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0263-2373(95)00043-7     Document Type: Article

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