Internationalization strategies selected by established rural and urban SMEs

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 8-22

  Westhead, Paul ^a   Ucbasaran, Deniz ^a   Binks, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Rural areas; Small to medium sized enterprises; United Kingdom; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993016704     PISSN: 14626004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14626000410519065     Document Type: Article

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