The impact of internet use on transnational entrepreneurship: The case of Chinese immigrants to Canada

New Technologies in Global Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 197-220

  Chen, Wenhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84968909032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812773555_0009     Document Type: Chapter

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