The owner/manager's mentality and the financial performance of SMEs

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 150-161

  Wijewardena, Hema ^a   Nanayakkara, Gunapala ^b   De Zoysa, Anura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SRI JAYEWARDENEPURA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Business development; Financial performance; Owner managers; Personality; Small to medium sized enterprises; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 40349091557     PISSN: 14626004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14626000810850892     Document Type: Article

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