How to turn crisis into opportunity: Perception and reaction to high level of uncertainty in banking industry

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Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 37-46

  Carbonara, Gabriele ^a,b   Caiazza, Rosa ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Banking; Europe; Management strategy; Uncertainty management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954855464     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636681011062988     Document Type: Article

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