Suitability of self-organising maps for analysing a macro-environment - An empirical field survey

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-161

  Länsiluoto, Aapo ^a  

^a SEINÄJOKI UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

Macro environment analysis; Self Organising Map (SOM); User evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846944672     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2007.011616     Document Type: Article

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