Tackling barriers to entrepreneurship in a deprived urban neighbourhood

Local Economy

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-42

  Williams, Nick ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barriers to entrepreneurship; Deprived urban neighbourhoods

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959562270     PISSN: 02690942     EISSN: 14709325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269094210391166     Document Type: Article

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