Embedding entrepreneurship in social structure: Israeli-Arab entrepreneurship

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 300-318

  Schnell, Izhak ^a   Sofer, Michael ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL RELATIONS; ENTREPRENEUR; ETHNICITY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0041887195     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00449     Document Type: Article

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