Explaining the decision to export: Evidence from UK firms

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 153-158

  Gourlay, A R ^a   Seaton, J ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPORT; FIRM SIZE; HUMAN CAPITAL; PROBABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 5044228900     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350485042000203760     Document Type: Article

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