Are small firms less efficient?

Small Business Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 375-395

  Yang, Chih Hai ^a   Chen, Ku Hsieh ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Metafrontier; SMEs; Subcontract; Switching; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449210137     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-007-9082-x     Document Type: Article

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