Employment growth of new firms

Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Growth and Performance: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 324-351

  Stam, Erik ^a   Gibcus, Petra ^b   Telussa, Jennifer ^b   Garnsey, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b EIM Group   (Netherlands)

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