Measuring entrepreneurship: Expert-based vs. data-based methodologies

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4063-4074

  Rezaei, Jafar ^a   Ortt, Roland ^a   Scholten, Victor ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Entrepreneurship orientation (EO); Factor analysis; Fuzzy logic

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE VENTURING; ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOR; ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION; ENTREPRENEURSHIP ORIENTATION (EO); FACTOR ANALYSIS; FUZZY LOGIC METHODOLOGY; INNOVATIVENESS; INVESTMENT BANK; PROACTIVENESS; RISK TAKING; SELF-ADMINISTERED QUESTIONNAIRE; START-UPS; VENTURE CAPITALISTS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; INDUSTRY; INVESTMENTS; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 82255179171     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.091     Document Type: Article

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