Transition to entrepreneurship from the public sector: Predispositional and contextual effects

Management Science

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 604-618

  Özcan, Serden ^a   Reichstein, Toke ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Endogeneity; Entrepreneurship; Public sector; Sorting; Tenure

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; ENDOGENEITY; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; PUBLIC SECTOR; TENURE;

COMMERCE; EMPLOYMENT;

SORTING;

EID: 67650321324     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0954     Document Type: Article

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