Productivity and Scale Effect in Closely Related Firms: Evidence from the Spanish Tile Sector

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 161-180

  Illueca, Manuel ^a   Lafuente, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

efficiency; productivity; small firms; technical change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998014121     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242603021002002     Document Type: Article

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