High-growth firms: Introduction to the special section

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 91-112

  Coad, Alex ^a,b,c   Daunfeldt, Sven Olov ^d,e   Hölzl, Werner ^f   Johansson, Dan ^d,g   Nightingale, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Stockholm School of Economics   (Sweden)

^d HUI Research   (Sweden)

^e DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WIFO   (Austria)

^g ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MACROECONOMICS; POLICY DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84892494023     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtt052     Document Type: Article

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