The responsiveness of entrepreneurs to working time regulations

Small Business Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 259-276

  Stephen, Frank ^a   Urbano, David ^b   Van Hemmen, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compliance; Entrepreneur; GEM; Judicial Formalism; Labour contracts; Observance; Opportunity entrepreneurship; Rigidity of hours; Working time

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349121577     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-007-9096-4     Document Type: Article

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