Reputation, diversification, and organizational explanations of performance in professional service firms

Organization Science

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 661-673

  Greenwood, Royston ^a   Li, Stan X ^b   Prakash, Rajshree ^a   Deephouse, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversification; Leverage; Professional service firms; Reputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144517045     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1050.0159     Document Type: Review

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