Preparing for business start-up: "Pre-start" activities in the new venture creation dynamic

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 404-417

  Atherton, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business formation; Entrepreneurialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547923703     PISSN: 14626004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14626000710773510     Document Type: Article

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