Sources of variation in firm profitability and growth

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 495-508

  Goddard, John ^a   Tavakoli, Manouche ^b   Wilson, John O S ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Firm, industry and country effects; Growth; Profitability; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349083745     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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