Exploring the role of trust in entrepreneurial activity

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 465-475

  Welter, Friederike ^a,b   Smallbone, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b SSE   (Latvia)

^c KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33745097173     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2006.00130.x     Document Type: Editorial

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