Sampling in entrepreneurial settings

Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Entrepreneurship

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 253-278

  Neergaard, Helle ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

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