Like Mother, Like Daughter? Analyzing Maternal Influences Upon Women's Entrepreneurial Propensity

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 687-711

  Greene, Francis J ^a   Han, Liang ^b   Marlow, Susan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84880035891     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2011.00484.x     Document Type: Article

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