Assessing the External Environment: An Enrichment of the Archival Tradition

Research Methodology in Strategy and Management

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 97-122

  Miller, C Chet ^a   ogilvie, dt ^a   Glick, William H ^a  

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EID: 33947205571     PISSN: 14798387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1479-8387(06)03006-2     Document Type: Review

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