Entrepreneurial Characteristics, Strategic Choice and Small Business Performance

Small Business Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-24

  Roper, Stephen ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0032367372     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007955504485     Document Type: Article

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