TOP LEVEL MANAGEMENT PRIORITIES IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE CYCLE.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 December 1985
K. G. Smith, T. R. Mitchell, Charles E. Summer
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This research operationally defined three top-level management priorities and made some suggestions about these priorities' relative levels of importance across three stages of organizational life ...
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