Women's entrepreneurship from an institutional perspective: The case of Uzbekistan

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 505-520

  Welter, Friederike ^a,b   Smallbone, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b Stockholm School of Economics in Riga   (Latvia)

^c KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Institutional theory; Transition; Uzbekistan; Women's entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949159438     PISSN: 15547191     EISSN: 15551938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-008-0087-y     Document Type: Article

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