Critical growth factors of ICT start-ups

Management Decision

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-75

  Lasch, Frank ^a   Le Roy, Frédéric ^b   Yami, Saïd ^b  

^a MONTPELLIER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; France; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847002039     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740710718962     Document Type: Article

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