'Life-making or risk taking'? Co-preneurship and family business start-ups

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 452-469

  Fletcher, Denise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

co preneurship; couples and new venture creation; family embeddedness of entrepreneurship; family start ups; lifestyle business; market work

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049313703     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242610370391     Document Type: Article

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