Opportunities and challenges for empirical strategy research in Africa

Africa Journal of Management

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 194-200

  Klingebiel, Ronald ^a   Stadler, Christian ^b  

^a FRANKFURT SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

data sources; strategy in africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012227953     PISSN: 23322373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23322373.2015.1026758     Document Type: Article

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