Like milk or wine: Does firm performance improve with age?

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics - Tập 24 - Trang 173-189 - 2013
Alex Coad1,2,3, Agustí Segarra‐Blasco4, Mercedes Teruel4
1Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Fibigerstraede 4, 9220 Aalborg O, Denmark
2Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group, Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany
3SPRU, University of Sussex, Freeman Centre, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QE, UK
4Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Grup de Recerca d’Indústria i Territori, CREIP, Avda. Universitat 1, 43204 Reus, Spain

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