Exploring the role of the business support infrastructure in Albania: The need for a rethink?

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 815-832

  Xheneti, Mirela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

ALBANIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 30144433635     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0522     Document Type: Article

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