Explaining self-employment success and failure: Wal-mart versus starbucks, or schumpeter versus putnam

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-38

  Goetz, Stephan J ^a   Shrestha, Sundar S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 58449095841     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: 15406237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2009.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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