Bridging the Gap of Relevance: Strategic Management and Organisational Development

Long Range Planning

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 742-754

  Heracleous, Loizos ^a   DeVoge, Sylvia ^a  

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EID: 0346551962     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-6301(98)00079-X     Document Type: Article

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