How do small companies measure their performance?

Problems and Perspectives in Management

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 49-68

  Laitinen, Erkki K ^a   Chong, Gin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

^b PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial and non financial variables.; Performance measurements; Questionnaire surveys; Small companies

Indexed keywords

EID: 67149118805     PISSN: 17277051     EISSN: 18105467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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