Strategic business cycle management and organizational performance: A great unexplored research stream

Strategic Organization

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 207-219

  Bromiley, Philip ^a   Navarro, Peter ^a   Sottile, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 46649096829     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127008090011     Document Type: Editorial

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