Strategy options and cognitive freezing: The case of the Dundee jute industry in Scotland

Futures

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 925-941

  MacKay, R ^a   Masrani, S ^a   McKiernan, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS;

EID: 33748068078     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2005.12.014     Document Type: Article

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