Watch that space! the county hierarchy in firm births and deaths in the UK, 1980-1999

Small Business Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 273-292

  Anyadike Danes, Michael ^a   Hart, Mark ^b   O'Reilly, Maureen ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth rate strategies; Business births and deaths; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844476909     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-004-3681-6     Document Type: Review

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