A conceptual framework of impeders to strategy implementation from an exploratory case study in an Iranian university

Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 246-261

  Rahimnia, Fariborz ^a   Polychronakis, Yiannis ^b   Sharp, John M ^b  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Higher education; Iran; Management strategy; Public sector organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863903442     PISSN: 17537983     EISSN: 17537991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17537980911001080     Document Type: Article

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