Rural women entrepreneurship within co-operatives: Training support

Gender in Management

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 262-277

  Petridou, Eugenia ^a   Glaveli, Niki ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Co operative organizations; Entrepreneurs; Greece; Rural regions; Training; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 46149125529     PISSN: 17542413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17542410810878077     Document Type: Article

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