Intellectual liabilities: Lessons from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

VINE

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 92-104

  Stam, Christiaan D ^a  

^a INHOLLAND UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assets; Business failures; Intellectual capital; Liabilities

Indexed keywords

ASSETS; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS FAILURE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL; LIABILITIES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

DETERIORATION; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; PLANT SHUTDOWNS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70049097230     PISSN: 03055728     EISSN: 14741032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03055720910962470     Document Type: Article

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