Home-Based Businesses: Setting Straight The Urban Myths

Small Enterprise Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 35-48

  Walker, Elizabeth ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 38349155365     PISSN: 13215906     EISSN: 11750979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/ser.11.2.35     Document Type: Article

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