Characterizing viability of small manufacturing enterprises (SME) in the market

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 128-134

  Kim, Kee S ^a   Knotts, Tami L ^a   Jones, Stephen C ^b  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Supplier to giant retailers; Survival of small manufacturing enterprises (SME); Viability of SME

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA HANDLING; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MARKETING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ADAPTIVE LEARNING NETWORK (ALN); SUPPLIER TO GIANT RETAILERS; SURVIVAL OF SMALL MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES (SME); VIABILITY OF SME;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 34248578618     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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