Entrepreneurship in urban and rural Switzerland: Similar or worlds apart?

The Theory and Practice of Entrepreneurship: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 287-312

  Bergmann, Heiko ^a,b   Baumgartner, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84875340220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781849805933.00019     Document Type: Chapter

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