CEOs and development of the meaningful mission statement

Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 13-20

  Analoui, Farhad ^a   Karami, Azhdar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Company performance; Small to medium sized enterprises; Strategic planning; Top management; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746881788     PISSN: 14720701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14720700210440044     Document Type: Article

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