Simplicity as a Strategy-Making Process: The Effects of Stage of Organizational Development and Environment on Performance

This field study investigated the importance of simplicity as a strategy-making process. Consistent with our hypotheses, use of a simplistic strategy-making process was found to be positively assoc...

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