Small firms: owners and entrepreneurs

Strategic Change

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 177-183

  Beaver, Graham ^a  

^a The University of Nottingham Ningbo China   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33645471613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10991697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsc.625     Document Type: Editorial

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