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Small Business Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 403-409

  Johnson, Peter ^a   Conway, Cheryl ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031502733     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007989110381     Document Type: Article

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