Wal-Mart and small business: Boon or bane?

Review of Regional Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-83

  Hicks, Michael J ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big box retail; Iowa; Wal Mart

Indexed keywords

DISCOUNT RATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RETAILING; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955589727     PISSN: 0048749X     EISSN: 15530892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.52324/001c.8201     Document Type: Article

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