Aggressors; winners; victims and outsiders: European schools' social construction of the entrepreneur

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 126-136

  Anderson, Alistair ^a   Drakopoulou Dodd, Sarah ^a,b,d   Jack, Sarah ^c,e  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b The American College of Greece   (Greece)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Athens Laboratory of Business Administration   (Greece)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Entrepreneur; European; Metaphor; National; Social construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349123896     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242608098349     Document Type: Article

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