Basic skills and small business competitiveness: Some conceptual considerations

Education + Training

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 152-161

  Addis, Mark ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Skills; Small firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986149566     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910310471019     Document Type: Article

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