"Business growth" - Do practitioners and scholars really talk about the same thing?

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 289-316

  Achtenhagen, Leona ^a   Naldi, Lucia ^a   Melin, Leif ^a  

^a JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

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EID: 77952561297     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2010.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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