When Porter's generic strategies are not enough: Complementary strategies for turnaround situations

Journal of Business Strategy

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 19-28

  Pretorius, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Organizational change; Turnarounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849434213     PISSN: 02756668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02756660810917200     Document Type: Review

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