If institutional performance matters: Development comparisons of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

Journal of Business Economics and Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 271-278

  Tvaronavičiene, Manuela ^a   Grybaite, Virginija ^a   Tvaronavičiene, Agne ^a  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Estonia; Institutions; Latvia; Lithuania; Multi criteria evaluation; Sustainable development; The EU

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949109376     PISSN: 16111699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/1611-1699.2009.10.271-278     Document Type: Article

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