Success and risk factors in the pre-startup phase

Small Business Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 319-335

  Van Gelderen, Marco ^a   Thurik, Roy ^b,c   Bosma, Niels ^c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c EIM Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nascent entrepreneurs; Performance; Start ups; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744513561     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-004-6837-5     Document Type: Article

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