Defining and measuring entrepreneurship

Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-63

  Iversen, Jens ^a   Jørgensen, Rasmus ^b   Malchow Møller, Nikolaj ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cross country comparison; Definitions; Entrepreneurship; Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650234425     PISSN: 15513114     EISSN: 15513122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/0300000020     Document Type: Article

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