Where do new firms come from?: Households, family capital, ethnicity, and the welfare mix

Family Business Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-278

  Steier, Lloyd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Family business; Households; Social capital; Welfare mix

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349288023     PISSN: 08944865     EISSN: 17416248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894486509336658     Document Type: Article

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