Strategy: Where is the pattern?

Organization

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 361-383

  Araujo, Luis ^a   Easton, Geoff ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030540869     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135050849633004     Document Type: Article

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