Challenges and barriers of the internationalization of rural SMEs

Authors

1 PhD student, Department of Entrepreneurship, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

2 Associate Professor, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran


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