Financing patterns of European SMEs – An empirical taxonomy

Venture Capital

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 115-148

  Moritz, Alexandra ^a   Block, Joern H ^a,b   Heinz, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Empirical taxonomy; Financing patterns; SME financing in europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959054629     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691066.2016.1145900     Document Type: Article

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