Do entrepreneurs enhance economic growth in lagging regions?

Growth and Change

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 431-465

  Stephens, Heather M ^a   Partridge, Mark D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPLOYMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; INCOME; RURAL ECONOMY;

APPALACHIANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82455188573     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2011.00563.x     Document Type: Article

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