Corporate attributions as strategic illusions of management control.

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• Publication year

  1984

• Venue

  Administrative Science Quarterly

• Publication date

  1984-06-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Psychology

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  DOI 10.2307/2393176
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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