Dealing with spatial heterogeneity in entrepreneurship research

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 176-191

  Breitenecker, Robert J ^a   Harms, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Geographically weighted regression; Spatial heterogeneity; Start up rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 70949091504     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428109338871     Document Type: Article

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