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Gender and Financial Risk: The U.S. and Brazil

Studies in Business and Economics
Volume 11 (2016): Issue 1 (April 2016)
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|Jun 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sbe-2016-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2344-5416 | Journal ISSN: 1842-4120
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Language: English
Page range: 15 - 25
Published on: Jun 29, 2016
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
Risk,
gender,
leadership,
Brazil
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Business management,
Management accounting, financial controlling, cost calculation, investment,
Management, organization, corporate governance,
Business development, change management, cooperation,
Entrepreneurship

© 2016 Dennis Barber, Yassaman Saadatmand, Thomas Kavoori, published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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