Small Business Owners' Success Criteria, a Values Approach to Personal Differences

Journal of Small Business Management

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-232

  Gorgievski, Marjan J ^a   Ascalon, M Evelina ^b   Stephan, Ute ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Ruegg Consulting   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 79953075291     PISSN: 00472778     EISSN: 1540627X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-627X.2011.00322.x     Document Type: Article

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