How Boards Strategise: A Strategy as Practice View

Long Range Planning

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-56

  Hendry, Kevin P ^a   Kiel, Geoffrey C ^a   Nicholson, Gavin ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SENIOR MANAGERS;

CORPORATE STRATEGY; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; PLANNING PRACTICE; RESEARCH;

EID: 73949108931     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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