What can we learn from failed international companies?
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Business failure: strategic foresight;JEL classification:
- L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
- L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
- M0 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - General
- M2 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CSE-2015-04-19 (Economics of Strategic Management)
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