Institutional perspectives on understanding street retailer behavior and networks: Cases from Ghana

Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place and Politics in Local and Global Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 164-179

  Lyon, Fergus ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203086742     Document Type: Chapter

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