Entrepreneurial intention: Triggers and barriers to new venture creations in Singapore

Singapore Management Review

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 47-64

  Choo, Stephen ^a   Wong, Melvin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 33745457181     PISSN: 01295977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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