Entrepreneurship and mutuality: social capital in processes and practices

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Volumn 26, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 453-477

  McKeever, Edward ^a   Anderson, Alistair ^b   Jack, Sarah ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community; entrepreneurship; ethnographic; qualitative; social capital; social context

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926246444     PISSN: 08985626     EISSN: 14645114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2014.939536     Document Type: Article

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