Competitive financial benchmarking using self-organizing maps

Paperi ja Puu/Paper and Timber

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 42-49

  Back, Barbro ^a   Irjala, Mikko ^a   Sere, Kaisa ^b   Vanharanta, Hannu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

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EID: 0004864263     PISSN: 00311243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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