Ethnic entrepreneurs and urban regeneration

Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 58-73

  Jones, Trevor ^a   Ram, Monder ^a,b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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