Organisational life-cycle: The characteristics of developmental stages in Russian companies created from scratch

Journal of East European Management Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-85

  Shirokova, Galina ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Developmental stages; Entrepreneurship; Organisational life cycle; Russia

Indexed keywords

EID: 76849096901     PISSN: 09496181     EISSN: 18620019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5771/0949-6181-2009-1-65     Document Type: Article

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