Small manufacturing businesses: meeting decision support needs

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 272-284

  Duan, Y ^a   Kinman, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computers; Decision support systems; Information systems; Manufacturing industry; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993016695     PISSN: 14626004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006845     Document Type: Article

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