A typology of strategy tool applications

Management Decision

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1090-1105

  Knott, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Applications; Competitive strategy; Decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747853865     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740610690630     Document Type: Article

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