A comparative study of motivation and entrepreneurial intentionality: Chinese and American perspectives

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-204

  Plant, Robert ^a   Ren, Jen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Entrepreneurship; self employment; Work Preference Inventory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955316504     PISSN: 10849467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1084946710001506     Document Type: Article

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