Why women enter into small business ownership

International Handbook of Women and Small Business Entrepreneurship

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3-16

  Orhan, Muriel ^a  

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DOI: 10.4337/9781845425586.00008     Document Type: Chapter

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