Agile virtual enterprises: Implementation and management support

Agile Virtual Enterprises: Implementation and Management Support

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-381

  Cunha, Maria Manuela ^a   Putnik, Goran D ^a  

^a Instituto Politcnico do Cvado e do Ave   (Portugal)

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EID: 84898246410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-010-3     Document Type: Book

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