Forms of capital, intra-ethnic variation and Polish entrepreneurs in Leicester

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-117

  Vershinina, Natalia ^a   Barrett, Rowena ^b   Meyer, Michael ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; ethnic entrepreneurship; forms of capital; mixed embeddeddness; Polish entrepreneurs

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953668880     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017010389241     Document Type: Article

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