The river metaphor for strategic management

European Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 549-557

  Lamberg, Juha Antti ^a   Parvinen, Petri ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Organizational evolution; Path dependancy; River metaphor; Strategic management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142139158     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-2373(03)00104-X     Document Type: Article

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