Gender differences in early-stage entrepreneurship in three european post-socialist countries

Drustvena Istrazivanja

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 589-611

  Tominc, Polona ^a,b,c   Rebernik, Miroslav ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial capacity; Entrepreneurial growth aspirations; Gender differences; Motivation for entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547230200     PISSN: 13300288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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