Strategy as a response to organizational uncertainty: an alternative perspective on the strategy-performance relationship

Management Decision

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 520-530

  Parnell, John A ^a   Lester, Donald L ^b   Menefee, Michael L ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

^b UNION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Grocery industry; Management; Strategy; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986064981     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740010352811     Document Type: Article

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