Is small beautiful? The case of the Swedish IT industry

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 271-287

  Johansson, Dan ^a  

^a Stockholm School of Economics   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Firm age; Gibrat's law; Institutions; IT industry; Small firm growth

Indexed keywords

FIRM OWNERSHIP; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 3943056747     PISSN: 08985626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0898562042000263258     Document Type: Article

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