The strategic evolution of large US law firms

Business Horizons

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-28

  Hitt, Michael A ^a   Bierman, Leonard ^a   Collins, Jamie D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate business model; Human capital; International strategy; Relational capital; Service diversification

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845565046     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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