Business cycle management and firm performance: Tying the empirical knot

Journal of Strategy and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-71

  Navarro, Peter ^a   Bromiley, Philip ^a   Sottile, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Business performance; Organizational behaviour; Working practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884180358     PISSN: 1755425X     EISSN: 17554268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17554251011019413     Document Type: Article

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