Recessionary consequences on small business management and business development: the abandonment of strategy?

Strategic Change

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 251-261

  Beaver, Graham ^a   Ross, Caroline ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34250306522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10991697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1697(199908)8:5<251::AID-JSC446>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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