Relational capital, profitability and access to credit: evidence from a sample of Italian small firms
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Relational capital; Small firms; Access to credit; Italy; D22; M21; Z13;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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