The entrepreneurial and replication function of new firm formation

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 667-674

  Koster, Sierdjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Founding rates; New firm formation; Spatial patterns; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 36248961685     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2007.00432.x     Document Type: Article

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