Entrepreneurs, expectations and business expansion: Lessons from Lithuania

Europe - Asia Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 855-880

  Aidis, Ruta ^a   Mickiewicz, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; CORRUPTION; ENTREPRENEUR; HUMAN CAPITAL; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748536081     PISSN: 09668136     EISSN: 14653427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09668130600830961     Document Type: Article

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