Are small firms really less productive?

Small Business Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 429-445

  Taymaz, Erol ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Firm dynamics; Innovation; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244458034     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-004-6492-x     Document Type: Article

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