Gender issues in entrepreneurship

Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship

Volumn 5, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 497-621

  Minniti, Maria ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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