Survivalist entrepreneurship among urban blacks during the great depression: A test of the disadvantage theory of business enterprise

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Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 972-984

  Boyd, Robert L ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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