Business Owners' Action Planning and Its Relationship to Business Success in Three African Countries

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1481-1498

  Frese, Michael ^a   Krauss, Stefanie I ^a   Keith, Nina ^a   Escher, Susanne ^a   Grabarkiewicz, Rafal ^a   Luneng, Siv Tonje ^a   Heers, Constanze ^a   Unger, Jens ^a   Friedrich, Christian ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

developing countries; entrepreneurship; performance; planning

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; NAMIBIA; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

ACHIEVEMENT; COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; NAMIBIA; OWNERSHIP; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; SOUTH AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 36348955075     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.6.1481     Document Type: Article

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