Internationalization of SMEs in Belarus

Handbook of Research on European Business and Entrepreneurship: Towards a Theory of Internationalization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 57-76

  Welter, Friederike ^a   Smallbone, David ^b   Slonimski, Anton ^c   Slonimska, Marina ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Ministry of Economic Affairs Minsk   (Belarus)

^d University of Economics of Belarus   (Belarus)

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