To grow or not? Growing small service firms

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 485-503

  Kirkwood, Jodyanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Business development; Entrepreneurs; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349633175     PISSN: 14626004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14626000910977189     Document Type: Article

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