Academic women's entrepreneurship in Spain and Scotland: A multilevel institutional approach

Global Women's Entrepreneurship Research: Diverse Settings, Questions and Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 56-74

  Mar Fuentes Fuentes, M ^a   Cooper, Sarah Y ^b   Bojica, Ana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84881810013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781849804752.00011     Document Type: Chapter

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