Social Structures and Resistance to Strategic Change: British Manufacturers in the 1980s
This article examines the refusal of two UK manufacturers to adapt their strategic ‘repertoires’ to the recessionary and structural changes of the 1980s. From being industry leaders in 1980, both companies were relegated to overseas control by the end of the decade. Developing both institutionalist...
Main Author: | Whittington, R |
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Format: | Journal article |
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1990
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