Female entrepreneurship in transition economies: The case of Lithuania and Ukraine

Feminist Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-183

  Aidis, Ruta ^a   Welter, Friederike ^b   Smallbone, David ^c   Isakova, Nina ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Female entrepreneurship; Institutional theory; Lithuania; Transition countries; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247535923     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545700601184831     Document Type: Review

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