Enhancing female entrepreneurship by enabling access to skills

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 479-493

  Botha, Melodi ^a   Nieman, Gideon ^a   Van Vuuren, Jurie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Business improvement; Entrepreneurial and business skills; Female entrepreneurs; Skills transfer; Training and education

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751100388     PISSN: 15547191     EISSN: 15551938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-006-0011-2     Document Type: Article

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