What holds back high-growth firms? Evidence from UK SMEs

Small Business Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 183-195

  Lee, Neil ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barriers to growth; Entrepreneurship; Gazelles; High growth firms; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900548216     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-013-9525-5     Document Type: Article

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