Strategy through a Cultural Lens: Learning from Managers' Experience

Management Learning

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 403-426

  Johnson, Gerry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0347305859     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507600314001     Document Type: Article

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