Strategy is personality-driven, strategy is crisis-driven: insights from entrepreneurial firms

Management Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 327-339

  Mccarthy, Breda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurialism; Small firms; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986133576     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740310468081     Document Type: Article

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