Alignment: The duality of decision problems

Management Decision

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1258-1276

  Scherpereel, Christopher M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Modelling; Strategic alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750732983     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740610707721     Document Type: Article

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