Developing strategic self-descriptions of SMEs

Technovation

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 989-999

  Vos, Jan Peter ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Self reference; Small and medium sized enterprises; Strategy

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

SELF-REFERENCES; SENSE-MAKING; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES; STRATEGY;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 13444267664     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2004.02.014     Document Type: Article

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