Small business survival and inheritance: Evidence from Germany

Small Business Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-109

  Schäfer, Dorothea ^a   Talavera, Oleksandr ^a  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Financial constraints; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950087941     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-007-9069-7     Document Type: Article

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