An exploratory study of technopreneurial intentions: A career anchor perspective

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-28

  Lee, Soo Hoon ^a   Wong, Poh Kam ^b  

^a MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Career anchors; Entrepreneurial intentions; Research scientists engineers; Situational constraints

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242720309     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-9026(02)00112-X     Document Type: Article

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