THE SPATIAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF NETWORKS FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

International Studies in Entrepreneurship

Volumn 14, Issue , 2006, Pages 35-59

  Welter, Friederike ^a   Trettin, Lutz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case Study Region; Female Entrepreneur; Network Emergence; Small Business Economic; Woman Entrepreneur

Indexed keywords

EID: 85146129896     PISSN: 15721922     EISSN: 21975884     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28376-5_3     Document Type: Chapter

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