Beyond achievement: Entrepreneurship as extreme experience

Small Business Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 349-368

  Schindehutte, Minet ^a   Morris, Michael ^a   Allen, Jeffrey ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Flow; Motivation; Peak experience; Peak performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751109968     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-005-0643-6     Document Type: Article

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