A competency-based model for the success of an entrepreneurial start-up

WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 279-291

  Wu, Wei Wen ^a  

^a TA HWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Best attribute value; Competency model; Entrepreneur; Rough set theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749124639     PISSN: 11099526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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