Export behavior, growth and performance of SMEs: Does ownership matter?

International Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 210-227

  Larimo, Jorma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

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