Business models of the largest enterprises in a small country context: The case of estonia

Halduskultuur

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 128-151

  Kalvet, Tarmo ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Business models; Estonia; Global production networks; Innovation linkages; MNCs; Open innovation; Small states

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956244655     PISSN: 17366070     EISSN: 17366089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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