Researching strategy formation process: An abductive methodology

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 289-301

  Chamberlain, Geoffrey P ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abductive; Epistemology; Interpretive; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644962853     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-005-8094-3     Document Type: Article

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