Effective strategic planning in small and medium sized firms

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 663-671

  O'Regan, Nicholas ^a   Ghobadian, Abby ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Parent companies; Small to medium sized enterprises; Strategic planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986132579     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210438490     Document Type: Review

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