New firm performance: Conceptual perspectives

Entrepreneurship Research in Europe: Outcomes and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 80-101

  Iakovleva, Tatiana ^a   Kolvereid, Lars ^a  

^a Bodo Graduate School of Business   (Norway)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781845424572.00011     Document Type: Chapter

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