Toward a practice perspective of entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Legitimacy as habitus

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 395-419

  de Clercq, Dirk ^a   Voronov, Maxim ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Habitus; Legitimacy; Practice perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 69649103976     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242609334971     Document Type: Article

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