Information search and opportunity identification: The importance of prior business ownership experience;Recherche d'information et reconnaissance des occasions: L'importance de l'expérience antérieure du "Business ownership"

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 659-680

  Westhead, Paul ^a,b   Ucbasaran, Deniz ^c   Wright, Mike ^c,d  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Oslo School of Management   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Habitual entrepreneurs; Human capital; Opportunity identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749123162     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242609344255     Document Type: Article

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