Entrepreneurship, export orientation, and economic growth

Small Business Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 255-268

  Hessels, Jolanda ^a,b   van Stel, André ^a,c  

^a EIM Group   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Entrepreneurship; Export; International new ventures

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052038186     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9233-3     Document Type: Article

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