An expert diagnosis system for the benchmarking of SMEs' performance

Benchmarking

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 106-119

  St Pierre, Josée ^a   Delisle, Sylvain ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^b University of Quebec in Trois Riviéres ^*

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Business performance; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644512811     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770610644619     Document Type: Article

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