The relationship between networking practices and business excellence: a study of small to medium enterprises (SMEs)

Measuring Business Excellence

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 78-92

  Terziovski, Milé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Networks; Performance; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644522845     PISSN: 13683047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13683040310478011     Document Type: Article

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