Organizational Performance as a Dependent Variable

Organization Science

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1997, Pages

  March, James G ^a   Sutton, Robert I ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Interpreting history; Organizational performance; Scholarship

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542528338     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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