The role of gender for entrepreneurship in a transition context

Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Local Development: Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 223-251

  Welter, Friederike ^a   Smallbone, David ^b   Isakova, Nina ^c   Aculai, Elena ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^d Finance and Statistics (IEFS)   (Hong Kong)

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