The supply of finance to women-led ventures: The Northern Ireland experience

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 308-329

  Leitch, Claire M ^a   Hill, Frances ^a   Harrison, Richard T ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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