Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations, and their drivers

Small Business Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 323-339

  Hessels, Jolanda ^a,b   Van Gelderen, Marco ^c   Thurik, Roy ^a,b  

^a EIM Group   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial aspirations; Entrepreneurial motivations; Global entrepreneurship monitor

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949113831     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9134-x     Document Type: Article

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