Researching small firms and entrepreneurship in the U.K.: Developments and distinctiveness

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 267-288

  Blackburn, Robert A ^a   Smallbone, David ^b  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

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EID: 39749179625     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2007.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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