SME Owner Involvement and Business Performance: Financial Security Rather Than Growth

Small Enterprise Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-85

  Vos, Ed ^a   Roulston, Callum ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

contentment; growth; owner involvement; SME performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866013316     PISSN: 13215906     EISSN: 11750979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/ser.16.1.70     Document Type: Article

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