Understanding the diversity of immigrant entrepreneurial strategies

Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship: A Co-evolutionary View on Resource Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 61-82

  Oliveira, Catarina Reis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

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