The embeddedness of women's entrepreneurship in a transition context

Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth: A Research Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 96-117

  Welter, Friederike ^a   Smallbone, David ^b  

^a JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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