Creative destruction and regional productivity growth: Evidence from the Dutch manufacturing and services industries

Small Business Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 401-418

  Bosma, Niels ^a   Stam, Erik ^b   Schutjens, Veronique ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Firm entry; Firm exit; Regional competitiveness; Total factor productivity; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953710580     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9257-8     Document Type: Article

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