Organizational structure and firm performance: An empirical analysis of the mediating role of strategy;Estructura organizativa y resultado empresarial: Un análisis empírico del papel mediador de la estrategia

Cuadernos de Economia y Direccion de la Empresa

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Claver Cortés, Enrique ^a   Pertusa Ortega, Eva M ^a   Molina Azorín, José Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competitive strategy; Firm performance; Organizational structure; Partial least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857917709     PISSN: 11385758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cede.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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