Planning practices in the Greek ocean shipping industry

European Business Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-176

  Koufopoulos, Dimitrios N ^a   Lagoudis, Ioannis N ^b   Pastra, Aspasia ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Freight forwarding; Greece; Strategic planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844446177     PISSN: 0955534X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09555340510588020     Document Type: Article

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