Developing local support services for small business development in central and eastern europe—the donor challenge

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 197-216

  Gibb, Allan A ^a   Haas, Zoltan ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Hungarian Foundation for Enterprise Promotion   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Donors; Local enterprise support; Policy; Small business; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006653898     PISSN: 08985626     EISSN: 14645114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08985629600000013     Document Type: Article

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