Entrepreneurship, process innovation and value creation by a non-profit SME

Management Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 284-296

  Huarng, Kun Huang ^a   Yu, Tiffany Hui Kuang ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Economic cooperation; Entrepreneurialism; Libraries; Purchasing groups; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952320077     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741111109160     Document Type: Article

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