The Temporal Development of Strategy: Patterns in the U.K. Insurance Industry

Organization Science

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 601-621

  Webb, David ^a   Pettigrew, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contextualism; Early adopters; Receptive context; Strategic agility; Strategy diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033261733     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.10.5.601     Document Type: Article

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