Measuring entrepreneurship with the General Enterprising Tendency (GET) Test: Criterion-related validity and reliability

Human Systems Management

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-52

  Stormer, Flora ^b   Kline, Theresa ^a   Goldenberg, Sheldon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

GENERAL ENTERPRISING TENDENCY (GET) TESTS;

PERSONNEL TESTING;

EID: 0032645420     PISSN: 01672533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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