Diversity in entrepreneurship: Ethnic and female roles in urban economic life

International Journal of Social Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2003, Pages 1131-1161

  Levent, Tüzin Baycan ^a,b   Masurel, Enno ^a   Nijkamp, Peter ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurs; Equal opportunities; Gender; Multicultural societies; The Netherlands; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344981448     PISSN: 03068293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03068290310497495     Document Type: Article

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