Requisite holism, isolating mechanisms and entrepreneurship

Kybernetes

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2000, Pages 1126-1140

  Rebernik, Miroslav ^a   Mulej, Matjaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Economics; Entrepreneitrialism; Systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS;

ENTREPRENEITRIALISM; ENTREPRENEURIAL MANAGEMENTS; SPECIALISATION; ENTREPRENEURIALISM;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 0034554722     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920010342198     Document Type: Article

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