Mutual trust as a key to internationalization of SMEs

Management Research News

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 674-688

  Fink, Matthias ^a   Kraus, Sascha ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Business formation; Capital ventures; Entrepreneurialism; Research; Small enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993044142     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170710779980     Document Type: Article

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