Growth aspirations and cultural support for entrepreneurship: A comparison of post-socialist countries

Small Business Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 239-255

  Tominc, Polona ^a   Rebernik, Miroslav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Early stage entrepreneurship; Growth aspirations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847358185     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-9018-x     Document Type: Article

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