Culture, opportunity and entrepreneurship in economic history: The case of britain in the twentieth century

Historical Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 363-382

  Godley, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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