Organizational fit and performance in miles and snow’s configurational theory: A covariant analysis

Management Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-28

  Roca Puig, Vicente ^a   Bou Llusar, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consistency; Covariance; Organizational fit; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956399391     PISSN: 15365433     EISSN: 15580946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/JMR1536-5433050102     Document Type: Article

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