Strategy implementation: The impact of demographic characteristics on the level of support received by middle managers

Management International Review

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-70

  Qi, Hantang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

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