Ethnic entrepreneurship in European cities: A comparative study of Amsterdam

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 323-336

  Baycan Levent, Tüzin ^a   Nijkamp, Peter ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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