An information support service for moderators of SME company networks

Management Research News

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 846-857

  Thimm, Heiko ^a   Rasmussen, Karsten Boye ^b  

^a PFORZHEIM UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Business environment; Information networks; Virtual organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349666875     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170910980353     Document Type: Article

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