Women's entrepreneurship in the United States

Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs and their Businesses: A Global Research Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 184-202

  Brush, Candida ^a   Carter, Nancy ^b   Gatewood, Elizabeth ^c   Greene, Patricia ^a   Hart, Myra ^d  

^a BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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