'I'm out of here': Women leaving companies in the USA to start their own businesses

International Handbook of Women and Small Business Entrepreneurship

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 221-235

  Mattis, Mary C ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

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EID: 11044229458     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781845425586.00027     Document Type: Chapter

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