Immigrant women in small business: Biographies of becoming entrepreneurs

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 83-98

  Brettell, Caroline B ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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