Executive migration and strategic change: The effect of top manager movement on product-market entry

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 213-236

  Boeker, Warren ^a  

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EID: 0031287587     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2393919     Document Type: Article

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