Women's entrepreneurship in Norway: Recent trends and future challenges

Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs and their Businesses: A Global Research Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 154-183

  Foss, Lene ^a   Ljunggren, Elisabet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORDLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Norway)

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