STRATEGY, CONTROL SYSTEMS, AND RESOURCE SHARING: EFFECTS ON BUSINESS-UNIT PERFORMANCE.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 June 1990
Vijay Govindarajan, Julie Fisher
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Focusing on business units (SBUs) in diversified firms, this study investigated the relationships among control systems, resource sharing, and competitive strategies and their interactive effects o...
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