Quantifying impact factors of corporate financing: Engineering consulting firms

Journal of Management in Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 96-104

  Chen, Jieh Haur ^a   Hsu, S C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Construction management; Consulting services; Engineering firms; Financial management

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; COST ACCOUNTING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONSULTING SERVICES; ENGINEERING FIRMS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 40849116593     PISSN: 0742597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0742-597X(2008)24:2(96)     Document Type: Article

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