Timeless advice: Daniel Defoe and small business management

Management Decision

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1304-1316

  Hamilton, R H ^a   Hamilton, Patricia L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurialism; Literature; Management history; Performance management; Small enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 28944455474     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740510634886     Document Type: Review

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