How CEOs and TMTs Build Adaptive Capacity in Small Entrepreneurial Firms

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 996-1018

  Friedman, Yair ^a   Carmeli, Abraham ^a   Tishler, Asher ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

adaptability; behavioural integration; comprehensiveness; small entrepreneurial firms; top management teams; transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958292344     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12184     Document Type: Article

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