Knowledge source and small business competitiveness

Competitiveness Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 88-95

  Abeson, Felix ^a   Taku, Michael A ^b  

^a Criminal Justice and Applied Social and Political Sciences Department   (United States)

^b TT Technical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive strategy; Explicit knowledge; Information retrieval; Small enterprises; Tacit knowledge; Unites States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931033373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10595420910942252     Document Type: Article

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