Success factors in small firm reorganisation

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 300-321

  Laitinen, Erkki K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Cluster analysis; Failure prediction; Finnish firms; Logistic analysis; Reorganisation; Small firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 62449218156     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2009.023656     Document Type: Article

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