Growth intentions and expansion plans of new entrepreneurs in the former soviet bloc

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

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 93-111

  Pistrui, David ^a   Welsch, Harold P ^b   Roberts, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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