Gendered lending: Gender, context and the rules of business lending

Venture Capital

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 183-201

  Blake, Megan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 Cs; Geographic scale; Institutions; Legitimacy; Women's entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646336655     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060500433835     Document Type: Article

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