Small business responsibility in developing countries: A threat or an opportunity?

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-53

  Luken, Ralph ^a   Stares, Rodney ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b FCLD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); DEVELOPING WORLD; GLOBAL ECONOMY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

EID: 13244270153     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.427     Document Type: Article

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