Raising the 'table stakes'? ethnic minority businesses and supply chain relationships

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-326

  Ram, Monder ^a   Woldesenbet, Kassa ^a   Jones, Trevor ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

employment relations; ethnic minority businesses; supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959348812     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017011398896     Document Type: Article

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