Temporal and geographical variations in ethnic minority business: Thirty years of research in the United Kingdom

Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship: A Co-evolutionary View on Resource Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 337-359

  Barrett, Giles A ^a   McEvoy, David ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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