Muslim businesswomen doing boundary work: The negotiation of Islam, gender and ethnicity within entrepreneurial contexts

Human Relations

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 403-423

  Essers, Caroline ^a   Benschop, Yvonne ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Gender; Identity; Islam

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449229659     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726708101042     Document Type: Article

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