Organizing entrepreneurship? Women's invisibility in self-employment

Revealing and Concealing Gender: Issues of Visibility in Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 100-123

  Kerfoot, Deborah ^a   Miller, Caroline ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230285576     Document Type: Chapter

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