Defining strategic processes in investment companies: An exploration study in Iranian Investment Companies

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-33

  Hanafizadeh, Payam ^a   Rezaei, Mehrdad ^b   Ghafouri, Alireza ^a  

^a ALLAMEH TABATABA'I UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; Corporate strategy; Iran; Organizational processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993012414     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150910931442     Document Type: Article

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