The effect of foreign ownership on SMEs performance: An efficiency analysis perspective

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 167-180

  Halkos, George Emmanuel ^a   Tzeremes, Nickolaos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bootstrap techniques; Efficiency analysis; Foreign owned firms; Non parametric approaches; SMEs' performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956278475     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-010-0174-2     Document Type: Article

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