Micro business: Characteristics of home-based business in New Zealand

Small Enterprise Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 112-123

  Clark, Delwyn N ^a   Douglas, Heather ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b Home Business New Zealand Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

business practices; empirical evidence; home business; micro firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899460037     PISSN: 13215906     EISSN: 11750979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/ser.17.2.112     Document Type: Article

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