Strategic Renewal in Times of Environmental Scarcity

Long Range Planning

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 361-376

  Schmitt, Achim ^a   Barker, Vincent L ^b   Raisch, Sebastian ^c   Whetten, David ^d  

^a Ecole Hoteliere Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; FINANCE;

CO-EVOLUTIONARY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; INDUSTRY CONTEXTS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; STRATEGIC CHOICE; STRATEGIC RENEWAL; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THEORY BUILDING;

ECOLOGY;

PERCEPTION; RESOURCE SCARCITY; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 84941695949     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: 18731872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2015.08.004     Document Type: Article

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