The perceptual effects of location on the performance of small businesses
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Location; Performance; SMEs; free zones; unfair competition; Tangier;All these keywords.
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- M19 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Other
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CSE-2016-11-06 (Economics of Strategic Management)
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