E-forecasting: Challenges and opportunities

International Journal of Business Performance Management

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-106

  Nikolopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Metaxiotis, Kostas S ^b   Assimakopoulos, Vassilis ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Ministry of Economy and Finance   (Greece)

Author keywords

Community portals; E government; Electronic markets; Forecasting; Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744494872     PISSN: 13684892     EISSN: 17415039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPM.2006.008153     Document Type: Article

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