Entrepreneurship: A weak link in the welfare state?

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 437-467

  Henrekson, Magnus ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE PROVISION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 21544432417     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dth060     Document Type: Review

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