How female entrepreneurs learn and acquire (business-relevant) knowledge

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-82

  Ettl, Kerstin ^a   Welter, Friederike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial learning; Entrepreneurship; Knowledge; Learning; Opportunity discovery; Opportunity evaluation; Opportunity exploitation; Opportunity recognition; Small business; Success; Women entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952155485     PISSN: 14761297     EISSN: 17418054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2010.033049     Document Type: Article

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