Intellectual capital and corporate performance in knowledge-intensive SMEs

Learning Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 241-262

  Cohen, Sandra ^a   Kaimenakis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Business performance; Greece; Human capital; Intellectual capital; Knowledge organizations; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247126150     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470710739417     Document Type: Article

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