Entry and exit in transition economies: The Slovenian manufacturing sector

Post-Communist Economies

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 191-214

  Bojnec, Štefan ^a   Xavier, Ana ^b  

^a Independent Research Organisation   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MANUFACTURING; OWNERSHIP; PRIVATIZATION; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 3242671665     PISSN: 14631377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1463137042000223886     Document Type: Article

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