A curiosity for contexts: Entrepreneurship, enactive research and autoethnography

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-76

  Fletcher, Denise E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Contexts; Contextualisation; Entrepreneurship; Relationality

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; INNOVATION; RESEARCH;

EID: 79951564709     PISSN: 08985626     EISSN: 14645114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2011.540414     Document Type: Article

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