Application of even swaps for strategy selection in a rural enterprise

Management Decision

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 394-402

  Kajanus, Miika ^a   Ahola, Jyrki ^b   Kurttila, Mikko ^c   Pesonen, Mauno ^d  

^a SAVONIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^b LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Scenario planning; Strategy; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986037718     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740110395688     Document Type: Article

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