A gender-aware framework for women's entrepreneurship

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-24

  Brush, Candida G ^a   de Bruin, Anne ^b   Welter, Friederike ^c  

^a BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurialism; Gender; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992957670     PISSN: 17566266     EISSN: 17566274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17566260910942318     Document Type: Article

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