Achieving global competitiveness in SMEs by building trust in interfirm alliances

Tourism in the Age of Globalisation

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 183-197

  Go, F M ^a   Appelman, J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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