Industry-specific cycles and companies' financial performance comparison using self-organizing maps

Benchmarking

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 267-286

  Länsiluoto, Aapo ^a   Eklund, Tomas ^b   Back, Barbro ^b   Vanharanta, Hannu ^c   Visa, Ari ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Financial performance; Industrial performance; Neural nets; Paper industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744439410     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770410538754     Document Type: Review

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