Explicitly Articulated Strategy and Firm Performance Under Alternative Levels of Centralization

Journal of Management

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 611-627

  Love, Leonard G ^a   Priem, Richard L ^b   Lumpkin, G T ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0036787885     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014920630202800503     Document Type: Article

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