Top management team impact on strategic assets accumulation capabilities

Management Decision

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 694-710

  Pegels, C Carl ^a   Yang, Baik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Assets management; Management styles; Managers; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986180776     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740010379740     Document Type: Article

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