Middle managers moulding international strategy: An Irish start-up in Jamaican telecoms

Long Range Planning

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-66

  Boyett, Inger ^a   Currie, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CORPORATE STRATEGY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; MANAGEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREATER ANTILLES; IRELAND; JAMAICA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1142281107     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2003.11.009     Document Type: Article

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