Entrepreneurship and risk aversion

Small Business Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 465-474

  Kan, Kamhon ^a,b   Tsai, Wei Der ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business startup; Liquidity constraints; Self employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746842716     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-005-5603-7     Document Type: Review

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