What is strategic management, really? Inductive derivation of a consensus definition of the field

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 935-955

  Nag, Rajiv ^a   Hambrick, Donald C ^b   Chen, Ming Jer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic communities; Linguistics; Strategic management

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES; BOUNDARY-SPANNING SCHOLARS; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34547849642     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.615     Document Type: Review

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