Toward a Contingency Framework of Export Entrepreneurship: Conceptualisations and Empirical Evidence

Small Business Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-68

  Ibeh, Kevin I N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0037209530     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020244404241     Document Type: Review

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