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Extracting Value from Their Environment: Some Observations on Pimping and Prostitution as Entrepreneurship

Robert Smith The Charles P. Skene Centre for Entrepreneurship, Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, ScotlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Maria L. Christou Criminologist and Independent AcademicCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 69-84 | Published online: 19 Dec 2012

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