Social capital and SME internationalization: An empirical examination

Transformations in Business and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 122-138

  Ruzzier, Mitja ^a   Antoncic, Bostjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Internationalization; Networks; Slovenia; SMEs; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547604574     PISSN: 16484460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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