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Strategic thinkers and their characteristics: toward a multimethod typology development

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2021-0024 | Journal eISSN: 2543-5361 | Journal ISSN: 2299-9701
Language: English
Page range: 313 - 330
Submitted on: Dec 2, 2020
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Published on: Dec 30, 2021
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