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Functional and productive dependence: new characteristics for the analysis of enterprises from a macroeconomic view

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This article introduce two new characteristics of firms, which are important, from a macroeconomic view, to evaluate the roll of entrepreneurial tissue in the territorial economic growth: functional dependence and productive dependence. An empirical analysis has been formulated in order to contrast the importance of these entrepreneurial characteristics, and try to show its relation with territorial economic growth.

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    Felipe Rafael Cáceres-Carrasco & Joaquín Guzmán-Cuevas

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Cáceres-Carrasco, F.R., Guzmán-Cuevas, J. Functional and productive dependence: new characteristics for the analysis of enterprises from a macroeconomic view. Int Entrep Manag J 6, 117–130 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-010-0141-4

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