Gender differences in home-based business ownership

Small Enterprise Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 124-136

  Breen, John ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

gender; Home business; small business

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880780834     PISSN: 13215906     EISSN: 11750979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/ser.17.2.124     Document Type: Article

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