Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India

Small Business Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 383-400

  Coad, Alex ^a,c   Tamvada, Jaganaddha Pawan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barriers to growth; Declining firms; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Female entrepreneurs; Firm age; Firm growth; Micro and small businesses; Robust regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863102361     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9318-7     Document Type: Article

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