Women's entrepreneurship in Australia: Present and their future

Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs and their Businesses: A Global Research Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 23-52

  Barrett, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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