Strategy, dynamic capabilities and complex science: management rhetoric vs. reality

Strategic Change

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 209-220

  McGuinness, Tony ^a   Morgan, Robert E ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 29244441105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10991697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1697(200006/07)9:4<209::AID-JSC485>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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