Who's driving take-up? An examination of patterns of small business engagement with Business Link

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 257-275

  Atherton, Andrew ^a   Kim, Jun Yeup ^b   Kim, Hyeyoen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; CORPORATE STRATEGY; FIRM SIZE; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

ENGLAND; NORTHAMPTONSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77953348316     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c09152     Document Type: Article

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