International entrepreneurship: A critical analysis of studies in the past two decades and future directions for research

Journal of International Entrepreneurship - Tập 10 Số 4 - Trang 279-324 - 2012
I. Peiris1, Michèle E.M. Akoorie1, Paresha Sinha1
1University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

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