Entrepreneurial social infrastructure and locally initiated economic development in the nonmetropolitan United States

Sociological Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 623-645

  Flora, Jan L ^a   Sharp, Jeff ^b   Flora, Cornelia ^b   Newlon, Bonnie ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031312020     PISSN: 00380253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1997.tb00757.x     Document Type: Article

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