Corporate strategy and financial analysis

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Career

Development:

Building

o World-Class

Organizational Benchmarks

for

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B. LEIBOWITZ and

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Jossey-Bass

(1993),

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303 pp.,

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208 pp., E19.95.

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SWOT

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RICHARD Associates,

103 pp., E57.20. technique

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(1993).

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Vol.

27

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1994