The Internationalization of SMEs in Malta: A critical assessment in the context of five European island regions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 431-450

  Baldacchino, Godfrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

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