Managing intellectual capital in Nigerian telecommunications companies

Journal of Intellectual Capital

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 262-282

  Suraj, Olunifesi Adekunle ^a   Bontis, Nick ^b  

^a LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business performance; Competitive advantage; Intellectual capital; Nigeria; Nigerian telecommunications companies; Partial least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859707420     PISSN: 14691930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14691931211225724     Document Type: Article

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