Commercial and financial policies in family firms: The small business growth management flight simulator

Simulation & Gaming

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 197-229

  Bianchi, Carmine ^a   Bivona, Enzo ^b  

^a Universities of Foggia and Palermo   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

management flight simulator; organizational learning; simulation; small business management decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993728831     PISSN: 10468781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104687810003100206     Document Type: Article

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