Institutional barriers to small- and medium-sized enterprise operations in transition countries

Small Business Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 305-317

  Aidis, Ruta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economics; SMES; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844538246     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-003-6463-7     Document Type: Review

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