Enhancing the internal validity of entrepreneurship experiments by assessing treatment effects at multiple levels across multiple trials

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-140

  Patel, Pankaj C ^a   Fiet, James O ^b  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Entrepreneurship; Estimating and organizing micro economic data; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956265629     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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