Allocation and productivity of time in new ventures of female and male entrepreneurs

Small Business Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-291

  Verheul, Ingrid ^a,b   Carree, Martin ^c   Thurik, Roy ^a,b,d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b EIM Group   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Archaeology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender; New ventures; Preferences; Productivity; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350621637     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9174-x     Document Type: Article

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