Growth beyond Gibrat: Firm growth processes and strategies

Small Business Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-135

  Stam, Erik ^a,b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Scientific Council for Government Policy   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Firm growth; Gibrat's Law; Growth processes; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955229993     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-010-9294-3     Document Type: Article

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