High-growth firms in the Swedish ERP industry

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 180-193

  Andersson, Svante ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Enterprise resource planning; Growth; Small to medium sized enterprises; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986133120     PISSN: 14626004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14626000310473201     Document Type: Article

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