Refugee entrepreneurship: The case of Belgium

Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Local Development: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 200-222

  Wauters, Bram ^a   Lambrecht, Johan ^a  

^a Campus Parnas   (Belgium)

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