The emergence of entrepreneurial potential in transition environments: A challenge for entrepreneurship theory or a developmental perspective?

Entrepreneurship and Growth in Local, Regional and National Economies: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 339-359

  Welter, Friederike ^a   Smallbone, David ^b  

^a JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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