Managing for growth: Decision making, planning, and making changes

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 144-151

  Joyce, Paul ^a   Woods, Adrian ^b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Growth; Innovation; Planning; Small to medium sized enterprises; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986144789     PISSN: 14626004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14626000310473175     Document Type: Article

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