The equity funding of smaller growing companies and regional stock exchanges

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 832-849

  Amini, Shima ^a   Keasey, Kevin ^a   Hudson, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Initial Public Offerings; small firm funding gap; UK regions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870868916     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242610382931     Document Type: Article

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