Benchmarking company profitability and growth: some measurement issues for small firms in Ireland

Economic and Social Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-208

  Hewitt Dundas, Nola ^a   Roper, Stephen ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY; METHODOLOGY; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

IRELAND; UK, NORTHERN IRELAND;

EID: 0031753011     PISSN: 00129984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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