Does the adoption of customer and competitor orientations make small hospitality businesses more entrepreneurial? Evidence from Kazakhstan

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 71-86

  Seilov, Galimzhan Aidarkulovich ^a  

^a L N GUMILYOV EURASIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Customer and competitor orientations; Developing country; Entrepreneurship; Kazakhstan; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922776034     PISSN: 09596119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJCHM-12-2013-0547     Document Type: Article

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