A consideration of the roles of business intelligence and e-business in management and marketing decision making in knowledge-based and high-tech start-ups

Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-57

  Hill, Jimmy ^a   Scott, Terri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Dental Training Agency   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business analysis; Electronic commerce; Entrepreneurialism; Network synthesis; Northern Ireland; Research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992947864     PISSN: 13522752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13522750410512877     Document Type: Article

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