Power and glory: Concentrated power in top management teams

Organization Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1197-1220

  Greve, Henrich R ^a   Mitsuhashi, Hitoshi ^b  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decision making; Organizational change; Power; Top management teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250871650     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607075674     Document Type: Article

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