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This paper investigates the constraints on the growth of creative and equilibrating entrepreneurial events. The empirical material is drawn from the Greek economy. It was observed that the two different levels of entrepreneurial events involve constraints of different kinds. This paper analyses those constraints and their significance for entrepreneurial growth.
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Petrakis, P.E. Entrepreneurship and Growth: Creative and Equilibrating Events. Small Business Economics 9, 383–402 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007980925402
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