Beyond knowledge to wisdom in international business strategy

Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 283-300

  McKenna, Bernard ^a   Rooney, David ^a   Liesch, Peter W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Case study; Counter intuition; Discourse; Isomorphism; Metaheuristic; Strategy; Virtuous; Visionary; Wisdom

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; KNOWLEDGE; RESEARCH;

ARISTOTELIA;

EID: 33748123088     PISSN: 08109028     EISSN: 14701030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08109020600877576     Document Type: Article

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