International activities of knowledge-intensive small- and medium-sized enterprises: The example of an open source software firm

Management Research News

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 645-658

  Pykäläinen, Timo ^a   Ojala, Arto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

International business; Operations management; Small to medium sized enterprises; Systems software

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749102036     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170910965242     Document Type: Article

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