Identifying core competence

IEEE Potentials

Volumn 21, Issue , 2002, Pages 2-7

  Hafeez, Khalid ^a   Zhang, Yan Bing ^b   Malak, Naila ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 0012693743     PISSN: 02786648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/45.998083     Document Type: Article

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