The significance of networking and company size in the level of creativeness of tourism companies: Antalya case

European Planning Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1247-1266

  Erkuş Öztürk, Hilal ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; FIRM SIZE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

EID: 77954645064     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654311003791283     Document Type: Article

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