So what or so everything? Bringing behavior genetics to entrepreneurship research

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-26

  Johnson, Wendy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior genetics; Convergent validity; Genetic and environmental influences; Genetic covariance; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149107953     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2007.11.002     Document Type: Note

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