What is really different about rural and urban firms? Some evidence from Northern Ireland

Journal of Rural Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 477-490

  Patterson, Hazel ^a   Anderson, Duncan ^b  

^a Econ Stat/PlcyCo ordination Grp   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; COMPETITIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; MANUFACTURING; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON;

NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0142009690     PISSN: 07430167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0743-0167(03)00027-5     Document Type: Article

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