Business forecasting recipes for the new millennium

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 278-284

  Nikolopoulos, K ^a   Lin, Binshan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

forecasting; M3 competition; management; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645152436     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2004.004526     Document Type: Article

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