Export information providers: Are they meeting the needs of SMEs?

Marketing Intelligence & Planning

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 141-149

  Chaudhry, Shiv ^a   Crick, Dave ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central government; Ethnography; Export; Small to medium sized enterprises; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986116777     PISSN: 02634503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02634509810217291     Document Type: Article

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