Insurances for human capital risk management in SMEs

VINE

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-66

  Mäenpää, Irinja ^a   Voutilainen, Raimo ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Nordea Life Assurance Finland Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

Human capital; Insurances; Intellectual liabilities; Knowledge asset protection; Risk management; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856796729     PISSN: 03055728     EISSN: 14741032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03055721211207761     Document Type: Article

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