Firm size, age, industrial networking, and growth: A case of the Korean manufacturing industry

Small Business Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-168

  Park, Younsuk ^a   Shin, Jaeun ^b   Kim, Taejong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Korea Development Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Clustering; Firm growth; Industrial networking; Korean manufacturing industry; Subcontracting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955227209     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9177-7     Document Type: Article

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