The influence of management capital on enterprise performance

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 444-461

  Bertoncelj, Andrej ^a   Kovač, Darko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^b COandDA Ltd ^*  (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Conative competency; Corporate performance; Human value added; Innate action mode; Kolbe method; Management capital; Slovenia; Small and medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749138840     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2008.018761     Document Type: Article

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