The philosophical foundations of a radical austrian approach to entrepreneurship

Journal of Management Inquiry

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 138-164

  Chiles, Todd H ^a   Vultee, Denise M ^b   Gupta, Vishal K ^c   Greening, Daniel W ^a   Tuggle, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Austrian economics; Entrepreneurship; Hermeneutics; Metaphor; Philosophy of science; Radical subjectivism

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549096279     PISSN: 10564926     EISSN: 15526542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1056492609337833     Document Type: Article

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