Trading places SMEs in the global economy : a critical research handbook /

Lester Lloyd-Reason and Leigh Sear bring together leading researchers and thinkers in this critical guide to the ongoing, worldwide research shaping the role played by SMEs within today's global economy. The expert contributors contend that the past twenty years have seen an explosion in resear...

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Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Other Authors: Lloyd-Reason, Lester., Sear, Leigh, 1970-
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., c2007.
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Online Access:https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781845420390.xml
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