An assessment of organizational resilience potential in SMEs of the process industry, a fuzzy approach

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1238-1245

  Aleksić, Aleksandar ^a   Stefanović, Miladin ^a   Arsovski, Slavko ^a   Tadić, Danijela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets; Organizational resilience

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; LOSS PREVENTION;

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS STRATEGY; FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS; FUZZY APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; NEW MECHANISMS; ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE; PROCESS INDUSTRIES;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 84901692983     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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