Romanian immigrant entrepreneurship: Utopia or reality? An overview of entrepreneurial manifestations of Romanian immigrants in Andalusia, Spain1

Transformations in Business and Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 48-64

  Dinu, Vasile ^a   Grosu, Raluca Mariana ^a   Saseanu, Andreea Simona ^a  

^a BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMIC STUDIES   (Romania)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial intentions; Entrepreneurship; Immigrant entrepreneurship; Romanian; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928482507     PISSN: 16484460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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