Gender gap in entrepreneurship;Lyčių skirtumai verslininkystėje

Engineering Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 60, 2008, Pages 95-103

  Startiene, Gražina ^a   Remeikiene, Rita ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Factors influencing gender gap in entrepreneurship; Gender gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449475770     PISSN: 13922785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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