Advancing a framework for coherent research on women's entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-339

  de Bruin, Anne ^a   Brush, Candida G ^b   Welter, Friederike ^c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 34247600155     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2007.00176.x     Document Type: Editorial

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