Serial entrepreneurship: Impact of human capital on time to re-entry

Small Business Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-21

  Amaral, A Miguel ^a   Baptista, Rui ^a   Lima, Francisco ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

General and specific human capital; Longitudinal data; Piecewise constant proportional hazard; Serial entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958149922     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9232-4     Document Type: Article

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