Three decades of enterprise culture?: Entrepreneurship, economic regeneration and public policy

Three Decades of Enterprise Culture?: Entrepreneurship, Economic Regeneration and Public Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-283

  Greene, Francis J ^a   Mole, Kevin F ^a   Storey, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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