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Leadership and Innovation in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Gary Walpole Orcid Logo, Roger Mansfield

The Human Factor, Volume: 1, Issue: 3

Swansea University Author: Gary Walpole Orcid Logo

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The increasingly globalised nature of the world economy inevitably means increasing competition for individual enterprises as well as for nation states. There can be little doubt that this creates an ever increasing need for both product and process innovation. This conclusion has been independently...

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Published in: The Human Factor
Published: 2006
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