Entrepreneurship education in higher educational institutions: The gender dimension

Gender in Management

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 286-309

  Petridou, Eugenia ^a   Sarri, Aikaterini ^b   Kyrgidou, Lida P ^a,c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c INTERNATIONAL HELLENIC UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurialism; Gender; Greece; Higher education; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949170141     PISSN: 17542413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17542410910961569     Document Type: Article

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