Financial development and the growth of cooperative firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 439-464

  Gagliardi, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperatives; Financial development; Institutional complementarities

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449238175     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-007-9080-z     Document Type: Article

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