Evaluation of business strategies in the UK construction engineering consultancy

Measuring Business Excellence

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-31

  Yisa, Silas ^a   Edwards, David J ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business strategy; Change management; Financial management; Human resource development; Marketing

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942656212     PISSN: 13683047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13683040210420754     Document Type: Review

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