Escaping the Japanese pyramid: The association of small and medium sized enterprise entrepreneurs (SME Doyukai), 1947-1999

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 128-163

  Ibata Arens, Kathryn ^a,b   Obayashi, Hiromichi ^c,d  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data flow; Merging; Systolic array; Systolic messy array

Indexed keywords

EID: 33244464805     PISSN: 14672227     EISSN: 14672235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/es/khj004     Document Type: Review

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