Graduate entrepreneurs are different: They access more resources?

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 183-202

  Pickernell, David ^a   Packham, Gary ^a   Jones, Paul ^a   Miller, Christopher ^a   Thomas, Brychan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurs; Graduates; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952286818     PISSN: 13552554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552551111114932     Document Type: Article

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