Top management teams, strategy and financial performance: A meta-analytic examination

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 813-839

  Certo, S Trevis ^a   Lester, Richard H ^b   Dalton, Catherine M ^b   Dalton, Dan R ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 33744824964     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00612.x     Document Type: Article

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