Entrepreneurial discovery and the Demmert/Klein experiment: Another attempt at creating the proper context

Review of Austrian Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-178

  Kitzmann, Jana ^a   Schiereck, Dirk ^a  

^a EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross country divergences; Entrepreneurial discovery; Gender specifica; Monetary rewards

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144491139     PISSN: 08893047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11138-005-6825-2     Document Type: Article

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