Competence and commitment: Employer size and entrepreneurial endurance

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1277-1304

  Sørensen, Jesper B ^a   Phillips, Damon J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EMPLOYMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; LABOR MARKET;

EID: 80053213321     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtr025     Document Type: Article

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