The shadow of death: Analysing the pre-exit productivity of Portuguese manufacturing firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 337-351

  Carreira, Carlos ^a   Teixeira, Paulino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Exit pattern; Firm survival; Portugal; Pre exit performance; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951727231     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9221-7     Document Type: Article

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