The feedback structure of the strategy process and top management's role in shaping emerging strategic behavior

Handbook of Research on Strategy Process

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 109-141

  Coda, Vittorio ^a   Mollona, Edoardo ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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