Is entrepreneurial success predictable? An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach

Kyklos

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 189-214

  Caliendo, Marco ^a,b   Kritikos, Alexander S ^b,c,d,e  

^a IZA   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH IAB   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d GfA   (Germany)

^e Dept of Economics ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENTREPRENEUR; HUMAN CAPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

EID: 42449132209     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: 14676435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2008.00398.x     Document Type: Article

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