Managing strategic change in small and medium-sized enterprises: how do owner-managers hand over their networks?

Strategic Change

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 415-426

  Gilmore, Audrey ^a   Carson, David ^a   Grant, Ken ^b   Pickett, Bill ^b   Laney, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 28944435365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10991697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1697(200011)9:7<415::AID-JSC515>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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