Planning, business objectives and capital budgeting in Japanese, German and domestic SMEs: Some evidence from the UK manufacturing sector

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 350-365

  Peel, Michael ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Objectives; Operations planning; Ownership; Short termism; Small to medium sized enterprises; Strategic planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993029143     PISSN: 14626004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006690     Document Type: Article

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