Experience and entrepreneurship: Technology-based owner-managers in the UK

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-54

  Jones Evans, Dylan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEURSHIP; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT IMPACT; OWNER MANAGERS; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; TECHNICAL ENTREPRENEURS;

UK;

EID: 0029906256     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.1996.tb00062.x     Document Type: Article

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