Regulatory Policies and Their Impact on SMEs in Europe: The Case of Administrative Burdens

The Blackwell Handbook of Entrepreneurship

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 128-149

  van der Horst, Robert ^a   Nijsen, Andre ^a   Gulhan, Selcuk ^b  

^a EIM Group   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Administrative burdens; Policies reducing administrative; Recommendations; Regulatory policies; Smes in europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046053389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164214.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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