Measuring growth: Methodological considerations and empirical results

Entrepreneurship and SME Research: On its Way to the Next Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 199-215

  Delmar, Frédéric ^a  

^a Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute   (Sweden)

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