A study of entrepreneurship in the restaurant and café industry: Exploratory work using the critical incident technique as a methodology: Prize-winning Paper from the IAHMS Conference at Sheffield Hallam University, England, November 1997

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-32

  Chell, Elizabeth ^a   Pittaway, Luke ^a  

^a Ctr the Stud of Entrepreneurship   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical incident technique; Entrepreneurship; Method; Small business

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037935718     PISSN: 02784319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0278-4319(98)00006-1     Document Type: Article

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