Regional Variations of Firm Births, Deaths and Growth Patterns in the UK, 1980-1991

Growth and Change

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 151-173

  Fotopoulos, Georgios ^a   Spence, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0345095525     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0017-4815.00154     Document Type: Review

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